University of Colorado
Top University of Colorado Discoveries: Discovery that the genetic messenger ribonucleic acid (RNA) can act like an enzyme and trigger catalytic reactions; with applications for novel therapeutics....
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Discovery of transposable elements (“jumping genes”), based on work begun at Cornell by Barbara McClintock (Nobel Prize 1983). Invention of the DNA particle accelerator (“gene gun”) for transferring...
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In late 1998, a UW-Madison group led by James Thomson was the first to isolate and culture human embryonic stem cells, master undifferentiated cells that arise at the earliest stages of development and...
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Josh Lederberg, Edward Tatum discovered bacterial recombination, which was then harnessed as a technique to explore biochemical genetics. This in turn became one of the cornerstones of molecular...
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Top University of Arizona Discoveries: Pima S-1Cotton was developed by Walker Bryan and standardized by Robert Peebles and has become the highest quality cotton. The science of Dendrochronology (study...
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