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Yogurt & Cheese were made with lactic-acid- producing bacteria by lot's of people.
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Moldy Soybean curds were used as an antibiotic.
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The Chinese used chrysanthemum as a natural insecticide.
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovers and even describes protozoa and bacteria
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Edward Jenner uses the first viral vaccine to help keep a child safe from smallpox.
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Protein has been discovered, named and recorded by Gerardus Johannes Mulder and Jons Jacob Berzelius.
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Louis Pasteur discovered the bacterial origin of fermentation.
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Gregor Mendel actually discovers the laws of inheritance.
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Friedrich Miescher identifies DNA in the sperm of a trout.
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Robert Koch develops a technique for staining bacteria for identification.
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Louis Pasteur develops a vaccine for bacteria that causes cholera and anthrax.
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Louis Pasteur & Emile Roux developed the first Rabies vaccine and it was tested on Joseph Meister.
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Karoly Ereky, a Hungarian agricultural engineer was the first person to use the word biotechnology.
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Alexander Fleming had noticed that a certain mould could stop the duplication of bacteris. This had lead to the first ever antibiotic, Penicillin.
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Francis Crick & James D. Watson describe the structure of DNA.
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The term bionics is coined by Jack E. Steele.
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Herbert Boyer and Stanley Norman Cohen perform the first successful recombinant DNA experiment, using bacterial genes.
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Method for producing monoclonal antibodies developed by Kohler and Cesar Milstein.
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NC Scientists Clyde Hutchison & Marshall Edgell showed that it is possible to introduce specific mutations at specific sites in a DNA molecule.
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The U.S. patent for gene cloning was awarded to Boyer & Cohen.
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Genentech human insulin drug produced by genetically engineered bacteria for the treatment of diabetes, was the first biotech drug to be approved by the FDA.
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The PCR technique is conceived.
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First Federally approved gene therapy treatment was performed successfully on a young girl that suffered from an immune disorder.
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The United States Food and Drug Administration approves the first ever Genetically Modified food, the flavr savr tomato.
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Ian Wilmut from the Roslin Institute cloned Dolly the Sheep using DNA from two adult sheep cells.
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Completion of a rough draft of the human genome in the Human genome project.
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Rice became the first crop to have its genome decoded.
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The Human Genome Project has been completed. This is providing information on the locations & sequence of human genes on all 46 chromosomes.
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Japanese astronomers launch the first Medical Experiment Module called Kibo. This will be used on the International Space Station.
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Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute uses modified SAN heart genes to create that first ever viral pacemaker which was used in guinea pigs. Now known as iSANs.
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Doctors made these Vocal Chords by using cells from human donors. These cells were coaxed into forming tissue that mimics vocal fold mucosa.
