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500 B.C.
In China, the first antibiotic, moldy soybean curds, is put to use to treat boils. Moldy soybrean curds are also known as tofu. -
A.D. 100
The first insecticide is produced in China from powdered chrysanthemums. The insecticide is retracted and produced from the flower. -
1761
English surgeon Edward Jenner pioneers vaccination, inoculating a child with a viral smallpox vaccine. -
1870
Breeders crossbreed cotton, developing hundreds of varieties with superior qualities. This is the first use of crossbreeding. -
1870
The first experimental corn hybrid is produced in a laboratory. These are the first stages of GMO. -
1927
Muller discovers that X-rays cause mutation. -
1933
The testing and production of hybrid corn is accepted and finalyzed. Hybrid corn is commercialized. -
1942
Penicillin is mass-produced in microbes for the first time. Penecillin is derived from fungi, and used to fight bacteria in your body. -
1950
The first synthetic antibiotic is created. It was called Chloromycetin. -
1958
DNA is made in a test tube for the first time. -
1979
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. -
1980
Smallpox is globally eradicated following 20-year mass vaccination effort. This throws it back to the first use of a smallpox vaccine in 1761. -
1981
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. -
1982
The first recombinant DNA vaccine for livestock is developed. This is the first use of DNA in a vaccine, and furthering expirimenting on livestock. -
1982
The first biotech drug, human insulin produced in genetically modified bacteria, is approved by FDA. Genentech and Eli Lilly developed the product. -
1986
Interferon becomes the first anticancer drug produced through biotech. This is furthering the cancer reasearch by biotechnologists. -
Kenya field-tests its first biotech crop, virus-resistant sweet potato
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. -
FDA approves Gleevec
The FDA approved Gleevec to use their treatments on patience with Lukiema and they aproved the drugs so Gleevec can use it on them -
The banteng, an endangered species, is cloned for the first time
Scientist started a campaign that would help and preserve animals on risk of extinction. -
The Human Genome Project completes sequencing of the human genome
This was used to find one's parents or to find out where they came from and find their background. -
China grants the world’s first regulatory approval of a gene therapy product
The FDA approved Shenzhen's therapy medicine to treat cancer patients and it was the very first aprroved FDA drug to be approved -
FDA approves the first antiangiogenic drug for cancer, Avastin
FDA approved a drug that would help treat cancer patients that would eventually lead to something bigger in the near future. -
The Energy Policy Act
Greenhouse act was introduced in this year to provide energy and protect the enviornment from all the gases in the world -
FDA approves the recombinant vaccine Gardasil
FDA approved the vaccine to make sure people didn't get cervical cancer, genital warts, cervical adencarcinoma etc. -
FDA approves the H5N1 vaccine, the first vaccine approved for avian flu
Vaccine to help prevent viruses like the flu or cold -
Global biotech crop acreage reaches 330 million acres
Biotech industry has come a long way and it has gained a lot of followers since growing more and more by the year.
