On August 7, 1975, César Milstein and Georges Köhler published their seminal paper on the production of monoclonal antibodies in continuous cell culture.
On July 27, 1921, Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best succeeded in isolating insulin from canine pancreases and thereby discovered the first effective treatment for diabetes mellitus
On June 27, 1976 Y.G., a storekeeper at the cotton factory in South Sudan, suddenly became ill with a high fever, chest pain, and headache. This disease would later be named after the Ebola River.
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On June 5, 1981, Michael S. Gottlieb and Joel Weisman jointly reported an unusual and novel immunological condition in homosexual men. They termed the new disease Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (GRID); it would later be renamed AIDS.
Those who think we are living in troubling times should take a closer look at 1968.
On May 20, 1747, James Lind, the ship surgeon of the HMS Salisbury, conducted one of the first clinical trials in medical history and thereby finding a cure for scurvy. Sadly, he did not realize it himself.
On May 14, 1796, the English physician and scientist Edward Jenner tested the “world’s first vaccine” on the eight-year-old James Phipps.
On April 16, 1956, exactly 60 years ago, Arthur Kornberg and his team of biochemists were the first to isolate and later characterize the enzyme which is now known as DNA polymerase I.
On April 1, 1969, Thomas D. Brock and Hudson Freeze published their discovery and cultivation methods of a new species of thermophilic bacteria, which they named Thermus aquaticus.
On March 20, 1996, the government of the United Kingdom first announced the possible connection between the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and the new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD).
On March 6, 1869, Dmitry Mendelejew presented his first version of the periodic table of elements to the Russian Chemical Society.