Duke University
Duke Medical Discoveries Irwin Fridovich (Department of Biochemistry) – His laboratory discovered the way living things protect themselves from oxygen toxicity by rapidly degrading superoxide ions that...
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Arthur Kornberg was the first to synthesize DNA-like material in a test tube. He won the Nobel Prize in 1959 for his work, which is seminal to understanding the relationship of DNA to diseases. Stanley...
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In 1941, Esmond Snell, working with colleagues at the University of Texas, independently discovered and named folic acid, a B vitamin that today is recommended as a supplement for pregnant women to...
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Recombinant DNA – Herbert Boyer (UC San Francisco) with Stanley Cohen (Stanford) Positron Emission Tomography (PET Scanning) – Michael Phelps (UC Los Angeles) Active-X controls for the internet –...
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1988 Developed the first transgenic mouse, now in use worldwide for cancer research. Experiments with the mouse at Harvard led to a method of preventing a cancer of blood cells common in young children...
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In late 1998, a UW-Madison group led by James Thomson was the first to isolate and culture human embryonic stem cells, master undifferentiated cells that arise at the earliest stages of development and...
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In 1974, UCSF scientists co-discovered recombinant DNA techniques, the fundamental first step in the creation of the biotechnology industry. (Herbert Boyer, PhD, professor emeritus of biochemistry and...
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Vitamin E
Vitamin E: needed to protect against damage to DNA Discovered by: Herbert Evans and Katherine Bishop at: University of California, Berkeley in: 1922
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In 1900, a University of Michigan chemist, Moses Gomberg achieved what had been believed to be impossible – to isolate an organic free radical (a carbon compound with an unpaired electron).[i] The...
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Named Science magazine’s 2015 Breakthrough of the Year, CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) were discovered in the 1980s, but it wasn’t until 2007 that their true power...
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