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Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin take x rays of DNA crystals which helps James Watson and Francis Crick to their conclusions
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James Watson and Francis Crick make their famous discovery and find out that DNA is shaped like a double helix.
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Jerome Lejeune discovers that Down Syndrome is the result of and extra chomosome.
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Fransic Crick and some other scientists idscovered that DNA was made up of A, C, G, T in every cell and viruse.
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The U.S. Supreme Court determines that genetically modified organisms can be patended.
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Humulin was the first genetically engineered drug produced by the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company.
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James Gusella used blood samples to identify the Huntington's Diesease marker.
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This is when the Human Genome project was started.
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Francis Collins identifies the gene that has Cystic Fibrosis.
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Alex Jefferys Coined the term DNA fingerprinting and was the first to use DNA polymorphisms in paternity, immigration, and murder cases.
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The first sucessful gene therapy was preformed on a girl with inherited immune deficiency disorder.
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FlavrSavr tomatoes, genetically engineered for longer shelf life, were marketed
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The first genetically engineered food is approved by the FDA.
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Dolly the Sheep is the first mammal to be cloned.
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Announcement of the final completion of the human genome sequence.
