On Jul. 25, 1993, Sandia Corp. became a Martin Marietta company, leaving the AT&T fold for the first…
In April 1993, James Watson resigned as head of National Human Genome Research Institute (NCHGR) following allegations that…
In 1992, DNA evidence was used to identify Josef Mengele from skeletal remains. Bone DNA analysis was therefore…
On Oct. 7, 1991, the University of Washington (UW) announced a $12 million gift from Microsoft co-founder Bill…
On Oct. 1, 1990, the U.S. Human Genome Project (HGP), a 13-year effort coordinated by the U.S. Department…
On Sept. 15, 1990, The Human Gene Mapping database was established at Johns Hopkins University. The database provides…
In 1990, The Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research (WICGR) was founded. The institute soon became an international…
In 1990, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) established a Human Genome Center at Washington University School of…
In 1990, Washington University – St. Louis researcher Stanley J. Korsmeyer, MD co-discovered the gene ‘bcl-2’, a pivotal…
In 1990, Geneticist Mary-Claire King and her colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley discovered BRCA1, the first…
In 1989, Allan Wilson and Svante Paabo analyzed DNA of the now-extinct Tasmanian tiger to demonstrate they could…
On Aug. 15, 1988, a program advisory committee on the human genome was established to advise the National…
On Jun. 30, 1988, The California Genetic Resources Conservation Program was closed by the Division. In 1985, California…
In 1988, the first detailed description of the rate of mutation in humans at the DNA level was…
In 1988, James C. Wang discovered DNA topoisomerases, which led to greater understanding of enzymes’ role in biological…
In December 1987, CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat) sequences were discovered in the E. coli Escherichia…
In 1987, Livermore biomedical researchers began studying human chromosome 19. At the same time, Los Alamos began efforts…
In 1987, Dr. Robert Thornburg at Iowa State University (ISU) prepared transgenic tobacco plants expressing a gene that…
In 1985, California becomes the first state to launch its own Genetic Resources Conservation Program. Designed to preserve…
In 1982, the first major DNA sequence databases were established in the U.S. (GenBank) and Germany. GenBank ®…
In 1982, George Streisinger at the University of Oregon (UO) cloned the first vertebrate — a zebrafish. Streisinger…
In 1980, Sarepta Therapeutics was founded originally as AVI BioPharma. Today, Sarepta is on an urgent mission: engineer…
In 1978, Carl Woese, an American microbiologist defined Archaea as a new domain based upon genetic relationships that…
In 1977, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) isolated Legionella pneumophila, which caused a deadly…
In 1975, the Southern blot technique was developed to analyze DNA fragments. The technique was named after its…
In 1974, Stanford Medicine researcher William S. Robinson successfully isolated the genome of the hepatitis B virus, which is…
In 1969, Victor McKusick, widely acknowledged as the father of medical genetics, spent his career studying the genetic…
On Aug. 25, 1959, the National Medal of Science was established by the 86th Congress as a Presidential…
On Feb. 28, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick announced the discovery of the double helical structure of…
In 1953, Coriell Institute for Medical Research is an internationally known, non-profit, biomedical research institution headquartered in Camden,…