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In China, the first antibiotic, moldy soybean curds, is put to use to treat boils. Moldy soybrean curds are also known as tofu.
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The first insecticide is produced in China from powdered chrysanthemums. The insecticide is retracted and produced from the flower.
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English surgeon Edward Jenner pioneers vaccination, inoculating a child with a viral smallpox vaccine.
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Breeders crossbreed cotton, developing hundreds of varieties with superior qualities. This is the first use of crossbreeding.
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The first experimental corn hybrid is produced in a laboratory. These are the first stages of GMO.
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Muller discovers that X-rays cause mutation.
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The testing and production of hybrid corn is accepted and finalyzed. Hybrid corn is commercialized.
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Penicillin is mass-produced in microbes for the first time. Penecillin is derived from fungi, and used to fight bacteria in your body.
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The first synthetic antibiotic is created. It was called Chloromycetin.
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DNA is made in a test tube for the first time.
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Human growth hormone is synthesized for the first time. This is furthering the era of labratory exploration of human DNA and hormones, as well as other human bodily productions such as insulin.
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Smallpox is globally eradicated following 20-year mass vaccination effort. This throws it back to the first use of a smallpox vaccine in 1761.
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Scientists at Ohio University produce the first transgenic animals by transferring genes from other animals into mice. This is the first major use of biotechnology in an educational setting.
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The first recombinant DNA vaccine for livestock is developed. This is the first use of DNA in a vaccine, and furthering expirimenting on livestock.
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The first biotech drug, human insulin produced in genetically modified bacteria, is approved by FDA. Genentech and Eli Lilly developed the product.
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Interferon becomes the first anticancer drug produced through biotech. This is furthering the cancer reasearch by biotechnologists.
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Kenya was trying to improve it's agricultural supplies so it increased it's biology studies and got it's information to improve it's land resources.
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The FDA approved Gleevec to use their treatments on patience with Lukiema and they aproved the drugs so Gleevec can use it on them
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Scientist started a campaign that would help and preserve animals on risk of extinction.
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This was used to find one's parents or to find out where they came from and find their background.
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The FDA approved Shenzhen's therapy medicine to treat cancer patients and it was the very first aprroved FDA drug to be approved
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FDA approved a drug that would help treat cancer patients that would eventually lead to something bigger in the near future.
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Greenhouse act was introduced in this year to provide energy and protect the enviornment from all the gases in the world
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FDA approved the vaccine to make sure people didn't get cervical cancer, genital warts, cervical adencarcinoma etc.
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Vaccine to help prevent viruses like the flu or cold
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Biotech industry has come a long way and it has gained a lot of followers since growing more and more by the year.
