Biotechnology Timeline madison and tyler

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
08/31/500	First Antibiotic	The first antibiotic was created in China. It was made from moldy soybean curds, and is used to treat boils.
08/31/1797	First Vaccine	The first vaccine was created by Edward Jenner. He did this by inserting pus from a cowpox lesion and inserting it into a patient's arm.
08/31/1830	Proteins are discovered	The first protein was found. It was insulin.
08/31/1833	Discovery of Enzymes	In this year, the first enzyme was discovered and isolated. This enzyme was called amylase.
08/31/1865	Discovery of genetic inheritance patterns	In 1865 Gregor Mendel discovered the law of inheritance by sdtudying flowers. This is the traits passed on through families from gereration to generation.
08/31/1944	The Avery Experiment	This was the research at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. In this early experiment dead Streptococcus pneumoniae of the virulent strain type III-S,was injected along with living but non-virulent type II-R pneumococci, and resulted in a deadly infection of type III-S pneumococci.
08/31/1952	Hershey-Chase experiment	The Hershey Chase experiment in 1952 was an experiment to prove that DNA was actually a gene, and not a protein. Hershey won the noble peace prize for this experiment.
08/31/1953	Discovery of DNA structure	James Watson and Francis Crick presented the structure of the DNA-helix, the molecule that carries genetic information from one generation to the other in 1953.they shared the Nobel Prize for solving one of the most important of all biological riddles.
08/31/1971	1st gene sequence	The first sequence of a gene occurred.
08/31/1981	The first transgenic animal	The first transgenic animal was a mouse. It was created by transfering genes from other animals into the mouse.
08/31/1982	Insulin	Human insulin is produced. It is the first biotech drug approved by the FDA.
08/31/1983	PCR technique conceived	Kary Mullis conceived the idea for the polymerase chain reaction. In 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of PCR
08/31/1989	Human Genome Project	An international scientific research project with the goal of determining the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA. The project began in 1989 and was initially headed by Ari Patrinos.
08/31/1990	First GM crop sold	The first GM food was a tomato. These genetically modified foods have had specific changes introduced into their DNA by genetics.
08/31/1997	First Cloned Animal	Scientists created Dolly, the first cloned animal from an adult cell. She lived until 2003.
08/31/1998	Human embryonic stem cell line established	Human embryonic stem cell lines are created. They could potentially replace diseased cells in the human body.