WhatisBiotechnology

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WhatIsBiotechnology is a leading educational and public engagement platform that brings together the stories about the sciences, people and places that have enabled biotechnology to transform medicine and the world we live in today.

Header: Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Credit: NIAID/NIH. Avatar: June Almeida who took the first image of a human coronavirus.

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On this day in 2014: Nottingham University scientists report breakthrough in manufacturing technology to produce stem cells
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On this day in 1917: Emil A. von Behring died, won 1901 #Nobel Prize for deveopment of serum therapies against diphtheria & tetanus #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1890: William Lawrence Bragg was born, won 1915 #NobelPrize for pioneering x-ray crystallography #ThisDayIn Biotech
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On this day in 1965: Philip S Hench died, won 1950 #Nobel Prize, showed cortisone effective rheumatoid arthritis treatment #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1997: Norman Wingate Pririe born, discovered RNA in viruses #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1997: Ruth Sager died, pioneer of cytoplasmic genetics and research into tumour suppressor genes #WomenInBiotech #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1927: John Vane born, uncovered how aspirin produces pain-relief, won 1982 #NobelPrize #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 2007: Paul C Lauterbur died, won 1990#NobelPrize for co-inventing MRI #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1942: John E Sulston born, won 2002 #Nobel Prize for Medicine for working out the cell lineage and genome of the nematode #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 2015: US scientists call for voluntary moratorium on the use of genome editing tools to modify human reproductive cells