Biotechnology Timeline Julio Fernandez

By kaiba222

  • Discovery of Proteins

    Discovery of Proteins
    Discovered by Antonie Fourcroy. Late 18th century.

  • First public vaccination campaign

    First public vaccination campaign
    The first public caccination campaing was for the Spanish Smallpox. This lasted from 1803 to 1813.

  • First Food Sterilization

    First Food Sterilization
    Food sterilization.

  • Discovery of genetic inheritance patterns

    Discovery of genetic inheritance patterns
    Gregor Mendel discovered genetic ingeritance patterns while conducting experiments in pea plants.

  • Discovery of enzymes

    Discovery of enzymes
    Wilhelm Kuhne first used the terms enzyme. Louis Pasteur discovered the concept of it while fermenting.

  • First Vaccine

    First Vaccine
    Louis Pasteur invented rabies vaccine.

  • First antibiotic

    First antibiotic
    Alexander Fleming invented Penicilling during World War 1.

  • Discovery of DNA structure

    Discovery of DNA structure
    William Astbury discovered that DNA had a regular structure. Other scientist contributed to the discovery of DNA, but William showed the structure of it.

  • McLeod's experiment

    McLeod's experiment
    This experiment that DNA is the substance that causes bacterial transformation.

  • Avery's experiment

    Avery's experiment
    Avery's experiment lead him to his discovery that DNA is the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.

  • First cloned organism

    First cloned organism
    A tadpole was the first cloned organism, though many scientists questioned whether cloning had actually occured.

  • Hershey-Chase experiment

    Hershey-Chase experiment
    A series of experiments that helped confirm that DNA was the genetic material.

  • First gene sequenced

    First gene sequenced
    Obtained by academic researchers using laborious methods. Followed the development of dye-based sequencing.

  • First recombinant organism

    First recombinant organism
    Peter Lobban first proposed this idea. Stanford University applied for a U.S. patent on recombinant DNA in 1974.

  • First transgenic animal

    First transgenic animal
    Rudolf Jaenisch first genetically modified an animal by a DNA virus into a early-stage mouse embryo.

  • Human embryonic stem cell line established

    Human embryonic stem cell line established
    Embryonic stem cells (ES cells) were independently first derived from mouse embryos.

  • First biotech drug (insulin)

    First biotech drug (insulin)
    Genentech produced this drug to treat diabetes. First biotech drug to be apporved by Food and Drug Administration.

  • PCR technique conceived

    PCR technique conceived
    PCR techinique is a scientific technique that amplifies a single or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, making thousand to millions of copies.

  • Human Genome Project

    Human Genome Project
    The goal of this project is to determine the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA.

  • First GM crop sold

    First GM crop sold
    Soybeans are the man GMOs today.