Milestones

In the early 1990s, a number of unexpected and perplexing results emerged from the corners of plant and worm research. Little did scientists know at the time that they were writing the first chapters of a story that would culminate in a paradigm shift for understanding gene regulation.

Following innovations in amplification and scaling over the past 30 years, single cell sequencing technologies have permeated all corners of biomedical research, providing cellular insights into diseases such as heart failure or the immune response during COVID-19 infection.

Pivotal advancements in transgenic science in the 1970s and 80s helped launch the mouse as a model system for studying human development and disease.