HISTORICAL EXPERIMENTAL EVENTS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Revised June 2010
ANTON VAN LEEUWENHOEK DEVELOPED THE MICROSCOPE AND OBSERVED MICROOGANISMS 1670s
Gregor Mendel FORMULATED BASIC LAWS OF HEREDITY THROUGH EXPERIMENTS WITH PLANTS 1866
JOHAN FRIEDRICK MIESCHER ISOLATED DNA FROM NUCLEI OF A WHITE BLOOD CELL 1869
ROBERT KOCK PROVED MICROORGANISMS CAUSE DISEASE 1893
THOMAS MORGAN PROVED GENES ARE CARRIED ON CHROMOSOMES PHRASE “BIOTECHNOLOGY” WAS COINED 1910
ROUS DISCOVERED 1 ST CANCER-CAUSING VIRUS
THOMAS HUNT MORGAN RESEARCH CONTRIBUTED TO KNOWLEDGE OF X & Y CHROMOSOMES EARLY 1900 s
ALEXANDER FLEMING DISCOVERED PENICILLIN 1928
ERNST RUSKA BUILT 1 ST ELECTRON MICROSCOPE 1932
Rosalind Franklin EARLY X-RAY PHOTOGRAPHS REVEALED A DOUBLE HELIX STRUCTURE
JAMES WATSON & FRANCIS CRICK COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ON DNA STRUCTURE (DOUBLE HELIX STRUCTURE)
ARTHUR KORNBERG DISCOVERED DNA POLYMERASE & A METHOD OF DNA REPLICATION 1956
PAUL BERG USED RESTRICTION ENZYMES TO CUT & PASTE SECTIONS OF DNA 1972
COHEN & BOYER 1 ST SUCCESSFUL RECOMBINANT DNA EXPERIMENT WITH BACTERIAL GENES “GENETIC ENGINEERING” EVOLVED 1973 – 1 ST PATEND FOR GENE CLONING
ROBERT SWANSON STARTED GENETECH COMPANY GENETICALLY ENGINEERED INSULIN, “HUMULIN” WAS PRODUCED
BIOGEN PRODUCED INTRFERON THROUGH RECOMBINANT DNA
BARBARA McCLINTOCK STUDIED GENETICS OF CORN AWARED NOBEL PRIZE 1983
BISHOP & VARMUS RESEARCHED & IDENTIFIED ONCOGENES (1982 – 1989)
HUMAN GENOME PROJECT 1988 MASSIVE EFFORT TO MAP & SEQUENCE THE COMPLETE HUMAN GENETIC CODE
AMGEN DEVELOPS NEUPOGEN USE TO TREAT LOW WHITE BLOOD CELL COUNT DURING CHEMOTHERAPY
GENETICS INSTITUTE DEVELOPED 1 ST GENETICALLY ENGINEERED BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR
FDA DECLARES GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD SAFE AND DOESN’T REQUIRE SPECIAL REGULATIONS
KARY MULLIS DEVELOPED PCR, DNA SEQUENCING & DNA FINGERPRINTING
CALGEN PRODUCED THE 1 ST GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TOMATO IT IS RESISTANT TO ROTTING
LINUS PAULING DESCRIBED SICKLE CELL ANEMIA GREAT CHEMIST OF 20 TH CENTURY
IAN WILMUT 1997 CLONED A SHEEP FROM AN ADULT SHEEP DNA
CELERA GENOMICS HUMAN GENOME PROJECT COMPLETES DRAFT OF DNA MAPPING
21 ST CENTURY BIOTECHNOLOGY IS CENTERED IN: BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY PHYSICS
BIOTECHNOLOGY TECHNIQUES TODAY: CELL & TISSUE TECHNIQUES DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES GENETIC ENGINEERING