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On this day in 1941: Rudolph Schoenheimer died, developed radioactive tagging & linked cholesterol to atherosclerosi #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1904: Ludwik Gross born, demonstrated viruses cause cancer in mammals #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1956: Benjamin M Duggar died, discovered Aureomycin, the 1st tetracycline antibiotic #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1919: 1st time the term 'bacteriophage' was coined. #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1941: Hans Spemann died, won 1935 #NobelPrize for discovering embryonic induction #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1923: D Carleton Gajdusek born, won 1976 #NobelPrize for his discovery of transmissible dementias #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1985: John F Enders died, won 1954 #NobelPrize for technique to grow polio virus and developed measles vaccine #NobelPrize #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1918: Derek Barton born, won 1969 #NobelPrize for demonstrating the chemical and biological behaviour of steroids #ThisDayinBiotech
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On this day in 1985: Rodney Porter died, won 1972 #NobelPrize for helping to determine the chemical structure of antibodies #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1943: Richard J Roberts born, won 1993 #NobelPrize for discovering split genes (introns) #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1939: Susumu Tonegawa born, won 1976 #NobelPrize for discovering genetic mechanism behind antibody diversity #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1906: Luis F Leloir born, won 1970 #NobelPrize for discovering role of sugar nucleotides in synthesis of carbohydrates #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1876: John J R Macleod born, 1923 #NobelPrize for insulin therapy for diabetes #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1913: Stanford Moore born, won 1972 #NobelPrize for his work on the catalytic activity of ribonuclease #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1899: Frank Macfarlane Burnet born, won 1960 #NobelPrize for advancing knowlege about auto-immunitty and immune tolerance #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 2001: Christiaan Barnard died, transplanted the first successful human heart, #NobelPrize #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1992: Barbara McClintock died, won 1938 #NobelPrize for showing how chromosomes change #ThisDayInBiotech #WomenInBiotech
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On this day in 1877: Francis W Aston born, won 1922 #NobelPrize for for discovering isotopes #ThisDayInBiotech
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On this day in 1881: Alexander Fleming born, won 1945 #NobelPrize for discovering penicillin #ThisDayInBiotech #Antibiotics