CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing


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

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Plastics


In 1900, a University of Michigan chemist, Moses Gomberg achieved what had been believed to be impossible – to isolate an...

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Vitamin E


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

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University of California ̵...


In 1974, UCSF scientists co-discovered recombinant DNA techniques, the fundamental first step in the creation of the biotechnology...

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University of Wisconsin –...


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

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Harvard University


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

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University of California ̵...


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

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University of Texas at Austin


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

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Stanford University


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...

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Duke University


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

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Cornell University


Discovery of transposable elements (“jumping genes”), based on work begun at Cornell by Barbara McClintock (Nobel Prize...

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The University of North Caroli...


Oliver Smithies’ gene-targeting technique, first tried in 1985 at Wisconsin-Madison but developed to its potential here at...

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