Biotech

History Of Biotechnology: Timeline

By Sashi
  • First Vaccine

    First Vaccine

    English surgeon Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccine.
  • End of Ancient Biotech

    End of Ancient Biotech

    • Agriculture
    • Fermentation (alcohol, cheese, vinegar, bread, etc)
    • Cross breeding (mules)
  • Period: to

    Classical Biotechnology

  • Gregor Mendel Pea Experiment

    Gregor Mendel Pea Experiment

    Mendel researches pea plants and their traits. The beginning of understanding genetics.

  • Nucleus and Nucleic Acid

  • Agar Used to Grow Microbial Samples

    Agar Used to Grow Microbial Samples

  • "Chromosome" coined

    Named by Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried Von Waldeyer-Hartz

  • Mendel's Work Acknowledged

  • "Gene" Coined

    Term coined by Wilhelm Johannsen
  • Fruit Fly Genome Sequenced

    Fruit Fly Genome Sequenced

    Fly genome mapped by Alfred Sturtevant.

  • First Cancer Causing Virus Discovered

    Discovered by American scientist Peyton Rous

  • Biotechnology named

    The term "Biotechnology" was first used by Karl Erkey in 1919

  • Eugenic Movement Starts in US

  • Penicillin Discovered

    Penicillin Discovered

    Antibiotic (penicilling) discovered from mold in England by Alexander Fleming

  • Penicillin Mass Produced

  • Period: to

    Modern Biotechnology

  • Photograph 51

    Photograph 51

    Rosalind Franklin creates photographic evidence of DNA's structure.

  • DNA Structure Discovered

    • Watson and Crick build a model of DNA

  • Concept of Operon Given

  • Synthesized DNA Amplified

    Dr. Har Gobind Kohrana discovers a way to amplify synthesized DNA.

  • First Monoclonal Antibodies

  • Rapid DNA Sequencing Developed

    Frederick Sanger develops a process to sequence DNA more quickly.

  • Recombinant Human Insulin Produced

  • First Biotechnology Developed Drug (Insulin) Approved

    FDA approves a human insulin drug created by Genentech and Eli Lilly using biotechnology

  • First Genetic Disease Mapped

  • PCR Discovered

    PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) discovered for amplifying DNA

  • First Anti-Cancer Biotech Drug

    Interferon is developed through biotechnology and is the first biotech developed anti-cancer drug.

  • Cystic Fibrosis Gene Mutation Identified

  • Period: to

    Human Genome Project

  • First Bacterium Genome Sequenced

    Genome of Haemophilius influenzae sequenced.
  • Dolly The Sheep Born

    Dolly The Sheep Born

    First cloned mammal that was successfully born. Dolly was cloned by the scientist Ian Wilmut.

  • First Human Chromosome Decoded

    Chomosome 22 becomes the first human chromosome to be decoded

  • First Draft of Human Genome

  • Mouse Genome Decoded

    Mouse Genome Decoded

  • Synthetic Genomes Proven to Replicate Autonomously

    Proven by Craig Venter.