On Oct. 7, 1994, a strong candidate for the 17q-linked BRCA1 gene, which influences susceptibility to breast and…
On Jun. 16, 1994, the University of Washington and ZymoGenetics scientists reported in Nature the discovery, isolation and…
In 1994, Mary-Claire King, PhD, a University of Washington professor of genome sciences and medicine, discovered the “breast…
In 1994, researcher Helen Donis-Keller and colleagues at Washington University – St. Louis announced they had for the…
In 1994, the Science Coalition was founded. The Science Coalition is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of more than…
On Aug. 9, 1993, Francisco Mojica published “Transcription at different salinities of Haloferax mediterranei sequences adjacent to partially…
On Jul. 25, 1993, Sandia Corp. became a Martin Marietta company, leaving the AT&T fold for the first…
In April 1993, James Watson resigned as head of National Human Genome Research Institute (NCHGR) following allegations that…
In 1992, DNA evidence was used to identify Josef Mengele from skeletal remains. Bone DNA analysis was therefore…
On Oct. 7, 1991, the University of Washington (UW) announced a $12 million gift from Microsoft co-founder Bill…
On Oct. 1, 1990, the U.S. Human Genome Project (HGP), a 13-year effort coordinated by the U.S. Department…
On Sept. 15, 1990, The Human Gene Mapping database was established at Johns Hopkins University. The database provides…
In 1990, The Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research (WICGR) was founded. The institute soon became an international…
In 1990, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) established a Human Genome Center at Washington University School of…
In 1990, Washington University – St. Louis researcher Stanley J. Korsmeyer, MD co-discovered the gene ‘bcl-2’, a pivotal…
In 1990, Geneticist Mary-Claire King and her colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley discovered BRCA1, the first…
In 1989, Allan Wilson and Svante Paabo analyzed DNA of the now-extinct Tasmanian tiger to demonstrate they could…
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…
In 1988, the first detailed description of the rate of mutation in humans at the DNA level was…
In December 1987, CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat) sequences were discovered in the E. coli Escherichia…
In 1987, Livermore biomedical researchers began studying human chromosome 19. At the same time, Los Alamos began efforts…
In 1987, Dr. Robert Thornburg at Iowa State University (ISU) prepared transgenic tobacco plants expressing a gene that…
In 1985, California becomes the first state to launch its own Genetic Resources Conservation Program. Designed to preserve…
In 1982, the first major DNA sequence databases were established in the U.S. (GenBank) and Germany. GenBank ®…
In 1982, George Streisinger at the University of Oregon (UO) cloned the first vertebrate — a zebrafish. Streisinger…
In 1980, Sarepta Therapeutics was founded originally as AVI BioPharma. Today, Sarepta is on an urgent mission: engineer…
In 1978, Carl Woese, an American microbiologist defined Archaea as a new domain based upon genetic relationships that…
In 1977, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) isolated Legionella pneumophila, which caused a deadly…
In 1975, the Southern blot technique was developed to analyze DNA fragments. The technique was named after its…