Technology and Medical Science: Technological developments in medical science.

1900 – – The term “immunology” first appears 1906 – The term “genetics” is introduced 1910 – – The first cancer causing virus is discovered 1914 – Bacteria is used to treat sewage 1920 – – The human growth hormone is discovered 1928 – Penicillin discovered

Technology and Medical Science: Technological developments in medical science – – 1 st Synthetic vitamin K produced 1939 – 1 st animal conceived by artificial insemination 1940 – – 1 st telescope lens 200” in diameter completed 1948 – X-ray reflection microscope invented 1950 – – 1 st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated 1955 – 1 st Protein Human Insulin sequenced

Technology and Medical Science: Technological developments in medical science – – Production of first working laser 1960 – Exploiting base pair, hybrid DNA-RNA molecules are created 1970 – – 1979 Computer Assisted Tomography (CAT) Scan technology was developed 1976 – Positron Emission Tomography (PET) first came to the market 1980 – Chiron Corp. founded, biotech operation 1984 – DNA fingerprinting technique is developed

Technology and Medical Science: Technological developments in medical science – – Human Genome Project began 1992 – The three-dimensional structure of HIV RT is elucidated 2000 – – 1 st plant to have genetic material fully described 2001 – Genetic blueprint of rice decoded