Hippocrates was an ancient Greek physician who was born around 460 BC on the Aegean Island of Kos. He is considered to be the “Father of Medicine”, basing treatment on the observation of clinical signs and rational conclusions.
On February 22, 1883 . . .
Alice Middleton Boring was born in Philadelphia. Dr. Boring began her scientific endeavors as a cytologist studying under Nettie Stevens and Thomas Hunt Morgan. After co-authoring 36 works with Morgan, Boring taughtfalse
On January 10, 1947 . . . Dr. Hubert Loring and assistant Dr. Carlton Schwerdt had a breakthrough in their research of the polio virus at Stanford.
On December 21, 1990 . . . Dr. Mary-Claire King first discovered that a gene on chromosome 17(BRCA1) was linked to inherited cancer, including ovarian and breast cancer. The article was published by Science on December 21, 1990.
THANK YOU ASCB 2016!
San Francisco was a fantastic host for this year's American Society for Cell Biology conference.
During December of 1981 . . . Dr. Gail R. Martin published a paper in which she first isolated stem cells and coined the term "embryonic stem cells."
THANK YOU NEUROSCIENCE 2016!And all the people who stopped to visit us during the conference!
We had a fantastic time in San Diego with everybody. Whether you came by to play Scientific Journeys Guess Who, talk antibodies, or say hi to IgGy™ thefalse