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Francesco Redi compares two competing ideas to explain why maggots appear on rotting meat. He observesthat meat covered to exclude flies doesn't develop maggots, while uncovered meat did. This is regarded as one of the first uses of a controlled experiment.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek uses his microscopes to make discoveries in microbiology. He is the first scientist to describe protozoa and bacteria and to recognise that microorganisms might play a role in fermintation.
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Andrei Nikolaevitch Belozersky isolates pure DNA for the first time.
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The biotechnology revolution arrives: scientists successfully create a recombinant organism for the first time by transferring viral DNA in to bacterium.
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The first deliberate release experiment is conducted by the firm Genitic Sciences, who inject genetically-modified microbes into trees growing on the company's roof.
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In the UK, genes are added to potato plants to make them produce more protein and increase their nutritional value.
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The first genetically engineered food product, the FlavrSavr tomato, recieves US Food and Drug Administration approval.
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In Australia, despite regulatory approval for GM canola, most state governments place moratoria on growing GM canola in response to consumer concerns.
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European Food Safety Authority concludes that antibiotic resistance marker genes in GM plants don't pose a relevant threat to human or animal health.
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Within the next twenty years, a second generation of GM crops is expected with properties that have more direct consumer benifit such as elimination of allergens in food, increased nutritional content, and lower fat and oil levels.
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GM foods will start being used more and more and in healthier ways.
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GM foods will be used everywhere and people will slowly stop eating organic foods because GM foods will be faster and healthier.
