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…
On Apr. 16, 1985, Swedish biologist Svante Paabo of University of Uppsala in Sweden, a pioneer of ancient…
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 U.S. Congress as a…
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,…
In 1952, Stanford Medicine researchers discovered a new class of immune response genes, suggesting for the first time…
On Nov. 27, 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris. He specified…
In 1895, the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association (HSPA) was founded. The HSPA, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, is dedicated…
On Oct. 12, 1872, the Legislature established the University of Oregon (UO) in Eugene. The UO officially opened…