Edward Jenner and the Smallpox Vaccine
On 14 May 1796, in the Gloucestershire market town of Berkeley, the country doctor Edward Jenner took matter from a fresh sore on the…
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Vesalius and the Fabrica of 1543
In the summer of 1543 the Basel printer Johannes Oporinus issued a folio volume of more than six hundred pages under the title De…
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The Discovery of Insulin
At a glance Discovery: Insulin isolated by Frederick Banting and Charles Best at the University of Toronto, summer of 1921. First clinical use: January…
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The First CRISPR Cures
Twelve years after Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier published the paper that made CRISPR gene editing possible, the first generation of approved cures is…
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