On Oct. 29, 2007, the International HapMap Consortium announced it had published an analyses of its second-generation map…
On Apr. 1, 2007, National Cancer Institute (NCI) researchers reported that a variation in a portion of DNA…
In Jan. 2007, the sequencing of the horse genome project was completed. The initial goal of the Horse…
On Nov. 8, 2007, researchers from Brigham and Women’s and MIT’s Broad Institute and Harvard discovered a gene…
On Sept. 18, 2006, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) announced the acquisition of RNA-TEC, based in Leuven, Belgium. The…
On Dec. 15, 2005, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) announced the completion of its acquisition of San Diego, CA…
On Sept. 30, 2003, University of Iowa (UI) Microbiology Professor Mark Stinski made the discoveries of CMV promoter…
On April 25 known as DNA Day, is a day that commemorates the successful completion of the Human…
On Apr. 14, 2003, The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, led in the U.S. the National Human Genome…
On Nov. 28, 2001, researchers discovered the E6 and E7 gene in HPV virus, linking cervical cancer cell…
In 2001, University of California, Davis scientists Stephen Kowalczykowski and the late Ron Baskin in the College of…
On Apr. 24, 2000, Stanford researchers announced they have solved the structure of the RNA polymerase protein, one…
In 2000, the Capillary electrophoresis DNA sequencer device was developed by Dr. Edward Yeung at Iowa State University….
On Mar. 17, 1999, the Hybrid Capture II human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA test was approved by the U.S….
In 1999, Michael Smith, recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, founded Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Science…
In August 1997, Thomas Brock and undergraduate student Hudson Freeze published their discovery of Thermus aquaticus, which they…
On Jun. 14, 1996, topotecan (Hycamptin), the first of a class of drugs that interferes with the enzyme…
In 1996, deCODE genetics was funded in Reykjavik, Iceland. deCODE is a global leader in analyzing and understanding…
In 1996, Livermore National Lab delivered to the U.S. Army for testing the first fully portable, battery-powered, real-time…
On Dec. 11, 1996, scientists from Stanford University and Affymetrix announced a new high-tech method that used a…
In 1996, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched PulseNet, a national network of laboratories,…
On Dec. 29, 1995, the Genentech drug Nutropin AQ ((somatropin) injection for subcutaneous use) was approved by the…
In 1994, the DNA Identification Act authorized the establishment of a national index of: (1) DNA identification records…
In 1994, National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) founded with support from Senator Pete Domenici as an independent…
On Dec. 1, 1993, scientists reported the recovery of DNA unique to Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a lung lesion…
In 1993, Dr. Michael Smith from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver was awarded one half the…
In 1993, Kary B. Mullis of La Jolla, CA and a graduate of the University of California at…
On Nov. 19, 1992, Larry Moore was convicted of the murder of former Gallatin County Sheriff’s Deputy Brad…
In 1992, DNA evidence was used to identify Josef Mengele from skeletal remains. Bone DNA analysis was therefore…
In 1992, the University of Iowa (UI) Research Foundation received its first U.S. patent on the CMV promoter,…