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The first small pox vaccination was invented by Edward Jenner.
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Louis Pasteur invented the germ theory of disease.
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Christian Gram invented the gram stain, a staining method for the classification of bacteria.
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Jonas Salk invented the Polio vaccine.
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Andrew J Moyer was granted a patent for a method of the mass production of penicillin.
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Becton, Dickinson and Company created the first mass-produced disposable syringe and needle, produced in glass.
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Benjamin A. Rubin invented a pronged vaccination needle used for smallpox vaccinations.
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W. Gilbert & F. Sanger invented a method to sequence DNA
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Kary Mullis invented the polymerase chain reaction
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The first microbial genomic sequence H. influenzae was published by Craig Venter, Hamilton Smith, Claire Fraser, and colleagues at TIGR.
