WhatisBiotechnologyOn this day in 2003: Bernard Katz died, won #NobelPrize for discoveries concerning humoral transmittors #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 2018: Clinical trials with 22 patients show gene therapy promising treatment for beta-thalasemia #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1975: Percy L Julian died, African-American pharmacologist who pioneered the large scale production of sex hormons #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1992: Daniel Bovet born, won 1957 #Nobel Prize for discovering drugs that block neurotransmitters #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1940: Joseph L. Goldstein born, won 1985 #NobelPrize for working out metabolism of cholesterol #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1905: Birthday George H Hitchings, 1988 winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine #NobelPrize #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1994: Roger W Sperry died, won 1981 #NobelPrize for showing the specilisation of the two parts of the brain #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1976: Carl P H Dam died, won 1943 Nobel Prize for discovering vitamin K importance in blood-clotting #NobelPrize #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1946: Georges Kohler born, won 1975 #NobelPrize for co-pioneering monoclonal antibodies #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1958: Rosalind E Franklin died, produced photo 51 - 1st image of DNA double-helix #WomenInBiotech #ThisDayInBiotech
