History of Biotech

By evelynschachter
  • 500

    First antibiotic

    First antibiotic was made and used in China in 500BC. It was made from moldy soybean curd and treated boils.
  • Period: 500 to

    Biotech in History

  • Vaccinations invented; Pioneered by English surgeon Edward Jenner. Inoculated a chiled with a viral smallpox vaccine.

    Pioneered by English surgeon Edward Jenner. Inoculated a chiled with a viral smallpox vaccine.

  • First GMO; First experimental corn hybrid is produced in a laboratory.

    First experimental corn hybrid is produced in a laboratory.

  • Biotech first used

    First used by Karl Erkey, a Hungarian Engineer.

  • Pencicillin Discovered

    Discovered by Scottish scientist Alexander Flemming.

  • Penicillin mass produced in microbes for the first time

  • First synthetic antibiotic is created

  • DNA made in a test tube for the first time.

  • Human Growth Hormone is synthesized for the first time.

  • The US Supreme Court approves the principle of patenting organisms, which allows the Exxon oil company to patent an oil-eating microorganism.

  • Human Genome Project completes sequencing of the human genome.

  • FDA approves first antiangiogenic drug for cancer

    Avastin

  • The Energy Policy Act is passed and signed into law

    authorizes numerous inventives for bioethanol development

  • FDA approves recombinant vaccine Gardasil

    first vaccine developed against human papillomavirus (HPV). first preventative cancer vaccine.

  • FDA approves the first genetically engineered animal for production of a recombinant form of human antithrombin