Biological & Biomedical Sciences | University Discoveries

Named Science magazine’s 2015 Breakthrough of the Year, CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) were...

Folic Acid: a B vitamin that today is recommended as a supplement for pregnant women to prevent neural tube defects such as spina...

Vitamin E: needed to protect against damage to DNA Discovered by: Herbert Evans and Katherine Bishop at: University of...

Some significant discoveries from the list: Fetal Surgery Drs.Joseph Bruner and Noel Tulipan were determined to find a way to do...

Top University of Michigan Discoveries: Francis S. Collins, his UM colleagues, and researchers at 8 other collaborating...

The field of bioengineering was pioneered at UCSD. Y.C. Fung, is the father of biomechanics, and was awarded the President’s...

Dan Nathans invents gene splicing using restriction enzymes Hamilton Smith invents gene splicing using restriction enzymes John...

In late 1998, a UW-Madison group led by James Thomson was the first to isolate and culture human embryonic stem cells, master...

In 1949 Dr. Benedict Cassen of the UCLA Department of Radiology developed the rectilinear scintillation scanner, an instrument that...

1988 Developed the first transgenic mouse, now in use worldwide for cancer research. Experiments with the mouse at Harvard led to a...

Recombinant DNA – Herbert Boyer (UC San Francisco) with Stanley Cohen (Stanford) Positron Emission Tomography (PET Scanning)...

In the 1960’s when University of Virginia was considered a world hub for cardiovascular physiology, Dr. Robert Berne developed a...