Physical Sciences & Engineering | University Discoveries

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...

Corrected sun path diagrams: Discovered that the Olgyay sun path diagrams used by architects throughout the United States in the...

In 1991, Stephen T. Warren, PhD, chair of the Department of Human Genetics at Emory University School of Medicine, led an...

In 1941, Esmond Snell, working with colleagues at the University of Texas, independently discovered and named folic acid, a B vitamin...

Arthur Kornberg was the first to synthesize DNA-like material in a test tube. He won the Nobel Prize in 1959 for his work, which is...

Duke Medical Discoveries Irwin Fridovich (Department of Biochemistry) – His laboratory discovered the way living things protect...