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In 2012, the californian company, Berkeley Bionics introduced to the world their new eLEGS exoeskeleton that helps to enhance the strength, mobility, and endurance of soldiers and paraplegics.
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Grid cells in the brain are discovered by Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser
A grid cell is a type of neuron in the brains of many species that allows them to understand their position in space. -
Dolly, was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer
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Commercial sale of genetically modified foods began in 1994, when Calgene first marketed its unsuccessful Flavr Savr delayed-ripening tomato
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Between 1975 and 1985 a series of experiments demonstrated that cancer, whatever its causative agent, is due to the activation, by modification or overexpression, of a family of genes highly conserved during evolution, called the cellular oncogenes.
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The PCR was inventedin 1983. Is a technique used in molecular biology to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude
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The creation of the first "transgenic animal" was accomplished by transferring a gene from one animal to the embryo of another a mouse
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In This year the first vaccine for Rubella was discovered
Effectiveness begins about two weeks after a single dose and around 95% of people become immune. Countries with high rates of immunization no longer see cases of rubella or congenital rubella syndrome -
First totally successful fertilization of human ovum outside human body
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On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted a heart from a person who had just died from a head injury. He lived for eighteen days, even spending time with his wife, before he died of pneumonia
