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

Dog on a Chip http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=209 William Hunt, professor of electrical and computer...

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...

Solar astronomer and USC professor Darrell L. Judge heads a team that developed equipment to measure extreme ultraviolet (EUV)...

Rockefeller Discoveries In the 60s developed an automated process for synthesizing peptides, which revolutionized protein chemistry,...

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

First visual proof that the rings of Saturn were particulate Launching of first heavier-than-air flying craft to achieve free...