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

Josh Lederberg, Edward Tatum discovered bacterial recombination, which was then harnessed as a technique to explore biochemical...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Professor Philip Lowe is pioneering an initiative to use folates to help diagnose and deliver therapeutic drugs to cancerous tumors....