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 1922: Charles Laveran died, won 1907 #NobelPrize for linking protozoan parasites with disease #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in Epstein helped to discover the Epstein-Barr virus
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On this day in 1901: Vincent du Vigneaud born, won 1955 #NobelPrize for isolating & synthesising the hormones vasopressin & oxytocin, #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 2014: Gerald M Edelman died, won 1972 #NobelPrize for discovering structure of antibodies #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1749: Edward Jenner born, pioneer of smallpox vaccine #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1947: Frederick G Hopkins died, won 1929 #NobelPrize for discovering & demonstrating importance of vitamins #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1845: Ilya Mechnikov born, won 1908 #NobelPrize for his discovery of phagocytes, a major immune mechanism #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1961: Coding mechanism for DNA cracked #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1847: Edwin R Lankester born, 1st to work out how malaria parasite develops in mosquito and human blood #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 2006: Robert Merrifield died, won 1984 #NobelPrize for inventing method for chemical synthesis on solid matrix #ThisDayInBiotech