In 1995, researchers led by Dr. Peter St. George-Hyslop at the University of Toronto discovered and cloned two…
On Oct. 7, 1994, a strong candidate for the 17q-linked BRCA1 gene, which influences susceptibility to breast and…
On Jun. 16, 1994, the University of Washington and ZymoGenetics scientists reported in Nature the discovery, isolation and…
On Nov. 20, 1990, Michael Crichton’s “Jurassic Park” novel was pulbished, introducing DNA technology to a wide audience….
In 1989, Allan Wilson and Svante Paabo analyzed DNA of the now-extinct Tasmanian tiger to demonstrate they could…
On Nov. 30, 1987, scientists at the University of California at San Diego and Wills Eye Hospital announced…
In 1985, virologist Flossie Wong-Staal became the first person to clone HIV, which led to the development of…
On Dec. 20, 1984, a team of scientists announced that a cDNA clone for human p53 cellular tumor…
On Nov. 15, 1984 Allan Wilson and Russell Higuchi of the University of CA at Berkeley become the…
In 1983, the Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms (RFLPs) was uncovered by the use of restriction endonucleases which cleave…
In 1982, the TP53 gene from the mouse was first cloned by Peter Chumakov of the Russian Academy…
In 1980, Dizhou Tong, also called Ti Chou Tung, and his colleagues in China isolated nuclei from the…
In 1980, the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Frederick Sanger and Walter Gilbert for “for…
In 1971, the American Chemical Society announced the Priestley Medal was awarded to Frederick D. Rossini by the…
In 1970, Howard Temin and David Baltimore discovered the enzyme reverse transcriptase. Reverse transcriptase and bacterial restriction enzymes…
On Jun. 20, 1964, a team of researchers led by Dr. Thomas Brock, then a professor at the…
In 1958, professor Sir John Gurdon cloned frogs using specialised cells from the intestines of tadpoles of a…
On Nov. 27, 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris. He specified…