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Classifying Blood Groups
Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups. -
Vitamins
Frederick Hopkins suggests the existence of vitamins and suggests that a lack of vitamins causes scurvy and rickets. -
The Band-Aid
Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid. -
Diabetes
Insulin first used to treat diabetes. -
Tuberculosis
First vaccine for Tuberculosis. It is spread through the air when people who have an active TB infection cough, sneeze, or otherwise transmit their saliva through the air. -
Yellow Fever
First vaccine developed for yellow fever. -
Kidney Transplant
Joseph Murray performs the first human kidney transplant (on identical twins). -
Human Lung and Liver Transplant
Thomas Starzl performs the first human liver transplant.
James Hardy performs the first human lung transplant. -
Human Heart Transplant
South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant. -
Chicken Pox
First vaccine developed for chicken pox -
CAT-Scans
Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans -
Test-tube Baby
First test-tube baby is born in the U.K. -
HIV
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified -
Hepatitis A
First vaccine for Hepatitis A. -
Clone
Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone. -
HGP
Human Genome Project, all human genes identified. -
SARS virus
Carlo Urbani, of Doctors without Borders alerted the World Health Organization to the threat of the SARS virus, triggering the most effective response to an epidemic in history. Urbani succumbs to the disease himself in less than a month. -
Cancer
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer. -
Face Transplant
Laurent Lantieri performs the first full face transplant. -
First Baby
First baby from embryos screened the eye cancer gene.