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The Cure for Scurvy
On May 20, 1747, James Lind, the ship surgeon of the HMS Salisbury, conducted one of the first clinical trials in medical history and...
The First Modern Vaccine
On May 14, 1796, the English physician and scientist Edward Jenner tested the “world’s first vaccine” on the eight-year-old James Phipps.
The Discovery of DNA Polymerase
On April 16, 1956, about 60 years ago, Arthur Kornberg and his team of biochemists were the first to isolate and later characterize the...
The Discovery of Thermus aquaticus
On April 1, 1969, Thomas D. Brock and Hudson Freeze published their discovery and cultivation methods of a new species of thermophilic...