In 1989, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established a World Health Organization (WHO) collaborating…
In 1988, Stanford Medicine researchers Irving Weissman and Mike McCune created an animal model that can be used…
On Dec. 21, 1988, the conjugated Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine (HibTITER by Wyeth-Lederle) was licensed. Prior to…
On Dec. 16, 1988, the Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center was established through a $7 million gift…
On Dec. 1, 1988, World AIDS Day is held on December 1 each year and is an opportunity…
In December 1988, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) sponsored a workshop to address the standardization of cervical/vaginal cytopathology…
On Nov. 16, 1988, the President signed into law the Generic Animal Drug and Patent Term Restoration Act….
On Aug. 15, 1988, a program advisory committee on the human genome was established to advise the National…
On Jun. 30, 1988, The California Genetic Resources Conservation Program was closed by the Division. In 1985, California…
On Jun. 25, 1988, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) proposed to ban mailings of microbe samples capable of…
On Jun. 24, 1988, University of Washington hearing researchers Jeffrey Corwin and Douglas Cotanche published the first report…
On Apr. 12, 1988, the Harvard Mouse created by molecular geneticists led by Philip Leder created the first…
On Mar. 31, 1988, the U.S. Congress enacted the National Space Grant College and Fellowship program and authorized…
On Mar. 18, 1988, Dr. Charles Esmon, a scientist from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) in the…
On Mar. 11, 1988, the World Health Assembly (the ministers of health of all member states of the…
On Mar. 2, 1988, the Landmarks Preservation Board officially designated the Seattle City Light Steam Plant building and…
On Jan. 23, 1988, Colin Pitchfork was convicted of murdering two girls in 1983 and 1986 in Narborough,…
On Jan. 22, 1988, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP) recommended…
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, 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…
In 1988, the first detailed description of the rate of mutation in humans at the DNA level was…
In 1988, the National Cancer Institute journals Cancer Treatment Reports and Journal of the National Cancer Institute (NCI)…
In 1988, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution for the worldwide eradication of polio, marking the launch…
In 1988, James C. Wang discovered DNA topoisomerases, which led to greater understanding of enzymes’ role in biological…
In 1988, Gertrude B. Elion shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the ‘discoveries of important…
In 1988, pathologist Irving Weissman from Stanford Medicine isolated a rare mouse cell, known as the hematopoetic stem…