CRISPR sequences discovered in the E. coli genome
In December 1987, CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat) sequences were discovered in the E. coli Escherichia…
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Genentech successfully cloned the gene encoding human insulin in E. coli Bacteria
On Sept. 6, 1978, Genentech, the most successful of the new biotech start-up companies, announced that scientists at…
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DNA is made in a test tube for the first time
In 1958, Arthur Kornberg at Washington University School of Medicine found which combinations of the nucleotides and other…
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First sign of antibiotic resistance to Penicillin was reported
In 1940, Edard Abraham and Ernst Chain reported that an E. coli strain was able to inactivate penicillin…
