Some advances in medicine
- 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick at Cambridge University describe the structure of the DNA molecule. Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin at King’s College in London are also studying DNA. (Wilkins in fact shares Franklin’s data with Watson and Crick without her knowledge.) Watson, Crick, and Wilkins share the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962 (Franklin had died and the Nobel Prize only goes to living recipients)
- 1954 Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant between identical twins
- 1955 Jonas Salk develops the first polio
- 1957 Dr. Willem Kolff and Dr. Tetsuzo Akutzu implant the first artificial heart in a dog. The animal survives 90 minutes
- 1962 First oral polio vaccine (as an alternative to the injected vaccine)
- 1964 Firstvaccine for measles
- 1967 First vaccine for mumps
- 1967 South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant
- 1970 First vaccine for rubella
- 1974 First vaccine for chicken pox
- 1977 First vaccine for pneumonia
- 1978 First test-tube baby is born in the UK
- 1978 First vaccine for meningitis
- 1980 W.H.O. (World Health Organization) announces smallpox is eradicated
- 1981 First vaccine for hepatitis B
- 1982 Dr. William DeVries implants the Jarvik-7 artificial heart into patient Barney Clark. Clark lives 112 days
- 1983 HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified
- 1992 First vaccine for hepatitis A
- 1996 Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell (dies in 2003)
- 1998 First vaccine for lyme disease
- 2007 Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells
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