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7000 BCE
Agriculture
Chinese invented beer making -
4000 BCE
Agriculture
Baked Bread, yogurt and cheese in Europe -
Smallpox Vaccine
Edward Jenner uses first viral vaccine to inoculate a child -
Cholera vaccine
Louis Pasteur develops vaccines against bacteria that cause cholera and anthrax in chickens. -
Rabies vaccine
Louis Pasteur and Emile Roux develop the first rabies vaccine and use it on Joseph Meister. -
Penicillin
Alexander Fleming extracts penicillin from mould. -
Agriculture
Commercialization of hybrid corn -
Penicillin
Modified microbes mass-produced penicillin for the first time. -
Synthetic antibiotic
The first synthetic antibiotic is created. -
Agriculture
First insemination of livestock using frozen semen -
First commercial myoelectric arm
Developed by the Central Prosthetic Research Institute of the USSR, and distributed by the Hangar Limb Factory of the UK. -
Gene therapy
First gene therapy treatment is performed successfully on a young girl who suffered from an immune disorder. -
Agriculture
The FDA approves the first GM food: the "Flavr Savr" tomato. -
Dolly the Sheep
sheep -
Human Genome Sequenced
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Bionic leg climbs Skyscraper
Zac Vawter successfully uses a nervous system-controlled bionic leg to climb the Chicago Willis Tower. -
Human Gene Editing
The first time use of the CRISPR technology to edit human genes to treat cancer patients failed to treat the patient.