Milestones

In a journey fraught with heartache and persistence, medical research giants paved the way for successful bone marrow transplantation. 

Since their discovery in the 1890s, viruses have intrigued scientists as potential cancer-killing agents.

Interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation propelled transformative advancements in single cell proteomic analysis. 

Gene therapy has a complicated history, marked by many ups and downs and crafted by ever-advancing technologies.

In the 1930s, HPV wasn’t on the radar for most scientists.Four decades passed before anyone connected HPV with cervical, penile, or anal cancer, and it took even longer before scientists developed a prophylactic vaccine.

The discovery of insulin and its role in diabetes began with extracting canine pancreatic secretions and culminated in the first artificial pancreas in 2016. 

Transgenic mice play pivotal roles in scientific and therapeutic discovery, but how did they become a staple model system?

Seventy years of scientific advancements led to a 10,000-fold improvement in protein detection sensitivity and the possibility of early disease diagnosis.

Herceptin transformed breast cancer treatment and opened the door to targeted therapy. 

Key advances in antigen detection technology and antibody specificity allowed early at home pregnancy detection.

What was once a weapon of destruction became a mainstay of cancer treatment.

Scientists unleash the power of PCR technology for accelerated drug development.  

Scientists harnessed the prokaryotic immune system to develop a groundbreaking gene editing technology that improves human health.

Through many innovations over the past 40 years, ChIP rapidly evolved to become a powerful tool for understanding the epigenome.

Conserved across plants and animals, RNAi is a powerful mechanism with tremendous therapeutic potential.

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.