University of Arizona


Top University of Arizona Discoveries: Pima S-1Cotton was developed by Walker Bryan and standardized by Robert Peebles and has...

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Yale University


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

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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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Cornell University


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

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University of Colorado


Top University of Colorado Discoveries: Discovery that the genetic messenger ribonucleic acid (RNA) can act like an enzyme and...

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