Biotechnology Timeline Julio Fernandez

By kaiba222
  • Discovery of Proteins

    Discovery of Proteins

    Discovered by Antonie Fourcroy. Late 18th century.
  • First public vaccination campaign

    First public vaccination campaign

    The first public caccination campaing was for the Spanish Smallpox. This lasted from 1803 to 1813.
  • First Food Sterilization

    First Food Sterilization

    Food sterilization.
  • Discovery of genetic inheritance patterns

    Discovery of genetic inheritance patterns

    Gregor Mendel discovered genetic ingeritance patterns while conducting experiments in pea plants.
  • Discovery of enzymes

    Discovery of enzymes

    Wilhelm Kuhne first used the terms enzyme. Louis Pasteur discovered the concept of it while fermenting.
  • First Vaccine

    First Vaccine

    Louis Pasteur invented rabies vaccine.
  • First antibiotic

    First antibiotic

    Alexander Fleming invented Penicilling during World War 1.
  • Discovery of DNA structure

    Discovery of DNA structure

    William Astbury discovered that DNA had a regular structure. Other scientist contributed to the discovery of DNA, but William showed the structure of it.
  • McLeod's experiment

    McLeod's experiment

    This experiment that DNA is the substance that causes bacterial transformation.
  • Avery's experiment

    Avery's experiment

    Avery's experiment lead him to his discovery that DNA is the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.
  • First cloned organism

    First cloned organism

    A tadpole was the first cloned organism, though many scientists questioned whether cloning had actually occured.
  • Hershey-Chase experiment

    Hershey-Chase experiment

    A series of experiments that helped confirm that DNA was the genetic material.
  • First gene sequenced

    First gene sequenced

    Obtained by academic researchers using laborious methods. Followed the development of dye-based sequencing.
  • First recombinant organism

    First recombinant organism

    Peter Lobban first proposed this idea. Stanford University applied for a U.S. patent on recombinant DNA in 1974.
  • First transgenic animal

    First transgenic animal

    Rudolf Jaenisch first genetically modified an animal by a DNA virus into a early-stage mouse embryo.
  • Human embryonic stem cell line established

    Human embryonic stem cell line established

    Embryonic stem cells (ES cells) were independently first derived from mouse embryos.
  • First biotech drug (insulin)

    First biotech drug (insulin)

    Genentech produced this drug to treat diabetes. First biotech drug to be apporved by Food and Drug Administration.
  • PCR technique conceived

    PCR technique conceived

    PCR techinique is a scientific technique that amplifies a single or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, making thousand to millions of copies.
  • Human Genome Project

    Human Genome Project

    The goal of this project is to determine the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA.
  • First GM crop sold

    First GM crop sold

    Soybeans are the man GMOs today.