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4,000 B.C. Egyptians make early bread from yeast
4,000 B.C.This was the one of the first man-made foods, which would lead to many more to come. At this time, China is developing wine and brewing from fermented grapes and barley. -
French Scientist Louis Pasteur discovered that milk spoiled from the microorganisms inside. He later created a process to reduce the issue.
Without this major disovery, we couldn't be able to keep milk or wine from spoiling. Now, we can store many things that would normally spoil for much longer. By providing an effective means of treating and preventing infectious diseases, Pasteur revolutionized medicine. -
American Botanist William Beal develops a clinically- controlled cross breed of corn
This was one of the first attempts to inbed another food gene (corn) into another breed of corn. Beal impacted many other scientists and inspired them to enhance food for the people. -
Monsanto, the infamous Genetic Modification company is founded
Monsanto began slowly, mining and refining sugar. After a while, they began to artificially sweeten the sugar,which would lead toa sudden pileup of GM in the years to come. Now, Monsanto is Modifying almost everything they produce. -
Scientists create a recombinant organism for the first time
This is a form of artificial DNA that is made from combining two or more DNA combinations that wouldn't usually happen together from gene splicing.Without this, our artificial and genetically modified items would have little or no variety. The method allows scientists accesibility to many other genes, normally out of reach. -
Scientist and inventor Kari Mullis invents the PCR method to multiply DNA
Polymerase chain reaction allows scientists to produce millions of copies from a DNA sequence in around two hours. The process takes away the need of bacteria to amplify DNA. -
The U.S aproves the public release of the very first GM product - tobacco
The tobacco was bred to have a reduced nicotine percentage and to increase the plant's resistance to viruses. The people were at first unsure about this new product, but soon understood the concept of Genetic Modification. Many of the people now accept and enjoy the fact that the tobacco is less threatening. -
Calgene Incorperated recieves a patent for Polygalactose modifeied tomato DNA
The Genetic Modification allows the tomato product to have an unnaturally long shelf life. This was one of the first times that modification was used to increase the product's health and the food's DNA structure. -
The Human Genome Project begins inthe United States and England
The project, which ended in 2003 was completely focused on learning as much as possible about DNA structure. The goals were to:
-find and label the approximatel 25,000 genes in human DNA
-determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA
-store all information in databases
-improve data analysis tools
-transfer related technologies to the private sector, and
address the ethical, legal, and social issues that can arise. -
Scotland scientists manage to breed drug enhanced chickens that lay cancer fighting eggs
The past attempts to enhance have led to today's attempts. The scientists can now use this info to predict what future projects will be like, such enhancing and adding more vitamins or disease defense. -
Monsanto and other buisness firms will be more impactful
In the future, things will regain a "spark" that drives people to become interested in the modification. By now, scientists will have discovered different methods of cloning DNA and genes.
Monsanto and other GMO firms are in a race to patent as many lucrative organisms as possible
