17 Selected Historical Foundation for the development of Biotechnology
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1 min readJan 8, 2022
- 1865: Inheritance of Genetic characters Of George Mendel
- 1917: The term biotechnology was coined by Karl Ereky
- 1943: Industrial Production of Penicillin
- 1944: Identification of DNA as the genetic material
- 1953:Determination of DNA structure by Watson and Crick
- 1961: Launching of the journal of biotechnology and Bioengineering
- 1975:Production of Monoclonal antibodies by Kohler and Milstein
- 1976:National Institute of health, USA issued the first guidelines for rDNA research
- 1978:Production of Human Insulin in E.Coli
- 1980:U.S. Supreme Court rules that genetically engineered microorganisms can be patented
- 1981: First Diagnostic kits based on monoclonal antibodies approved in the U.S.
- 1982: the U.S. approved humulin i.e.human insulin, the first pharmaceutical product of eDNA technology, for human use
- 1988: U.S. patent granted to genetically engineered mouse i.e. susceptible to cancer
- 1990: Official launching of Human Genome Project (HGP)
- 1992: First Chromosome of yeast sequenced
- 1997: The First Mammalian sheep, Dolly developed by Nuclear cloning
- 2001: Human genome, the first mammalian genome sequenced
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