In 1988, scientists at the University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory find 10 times more genetic diversity…
In 1988, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed the Disabilities Prevention Program to give…
In 1986, The University of Michigan Cancer Center was founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The University of Michigan…
In 1988, radiation oncology physicist James Purdy, PhD and colleagues at Washington University School of Medicine developed a…
In 1988, Dr. Irv Weissman became the first scientist to identify and isolate stem cells in any species,…
In 1988, the Center for AIDS Research at Albert Einstein Cancer Center was funded by the National Institutes…
In 1988, Dr. Fletcher Taylor and Dr. Charles Esmon from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) filed for…
In 1988, Bio-Care, a company based in Woy Woy, New South Wales, Australia, was given permission by the…
On Dec. 22, 1987, the protein-conjugated Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine (PRP-D, ProHibit by Connaught) was licensed.
In December 1987, CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat) sequences were discovered in the E. coli Escherichia…
In December 1987, the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac), discovered by David T. Wong, received U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
On Nov. 30, 1987, scientists at the University of California at San Diego and Wills Eye Hospital announced…
On Oct. 24, 1987, the Office of Technology Development was established in the National Cancer Institute Office of…
On Oct. 19, 1987, the stock market crashed (Black Monday) with Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 508 points…
On Oct. 15, 1987, the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) from the National Cancer Institute…
On Oct. 6, 1987, the Center for Drugs and Biologics within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was…
On Jun. 26, 1987, it was announced that the National Center for Health Statistics ﾠ(NCHS) had become an…
On Jun. 12, 1987, a crew of just 47 physicians and 225 allied health employees rallied to formally…
On Jun. 8, 1987, Advanced Genetic Sciences announced that its Frostban (Ice-minus) bacteria successfully protected strawberries from below-freezing…
On May 26, 1987, vandals uprooted approximately 3,000 potato plants being studied with ice-minus bacterium on a half-acre…
On Apr. 29, 1987, University of California, Berkeley plant pathologist Steven Lindow field-tested genetically altered Pseudomonas syringae (known…
On Apr. 24, 1987, Advanced Genetic Sciences (AGS) sprayed Frostban on an acre of strawberry plants in Brentwood,…
In 1987, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the results of a study on…
On Feb. 1, 1987, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched its Global Program on AIDS as the architect…
In 1987, the University of Minnesota Cancer Center, now known as the Masonic Cancer Center, received National Cancer…
In 1987, The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Cancer Center received National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation. CSHL researchers…
In 1987, the Case Cancer Center (Case CCC) at Case Western Reserve University was both founded and became…
In 1987, Drs. Patrick and Edith McGeer developed the groundbreaking concept that inflammation plays a role in the…
In 1987, construction was completed on the Vollum Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research in Portland. The institute is…
In 1987, the University of Virginia Cancer Center (UVA), now known as the UVA Health Cancer Center, received…