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Edward Jenner
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Made 1st vaccination, took cowpox pus and inserted it into a boy's arm. He was then protected from smallpox.
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Louis Pasteur
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Proposed that microbes caused fermentation. His experiments supported the germ theory of disease.
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Gregor Mendel
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He did pioneering work in inheritance. He started genetics.
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Sir Alexander Fleming
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Discovered penicillin.
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Avery, McLeod, McCarty
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In 1944 they showed that DNA carries genetic information.
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Watson and Crick
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Describe DNA's double helix structure.
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Frederick Sanger
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Found the amino acid sequence of Insulin.
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Nirenberg, Holley, Khorana
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cracked the genetic code for DNA
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Cohen and Boyer
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Perfected the use of restriction enzymes to cut and paste DNA
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Kohler and Milstein
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Produced technology that allows us to produce monoclonal antibodies
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they were practically clones of each other..
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Kary Mullis
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Developed PCR
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1st Recombinant Vacccine?
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Hepatits B
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1st anti-cancer drug
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Interferon
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Why are kinases druggable targets?
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Because they have small active sites. Rxns that occur over a large area are not druggable though we can use antibodies to block these areas.
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How many nucleotides make up 1 gene?
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100 to 1000 bases
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