Modern History: Biology and Life

1676 – Microscopic World

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonie_van_Leeuwenhoek

1846 – Anesthesia / Modern Surgery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anesthesia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgery

1859 – Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species

1865 – Germ Theory of Disease / Public Health

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

1896 – Psychoanalysis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

1918 – Spanish Flu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu

1928 – Penicillin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin

1943 – Modern Drug Development

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptomycin

1953 – Structure of DNA – Watson & Crick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_molecular_biology

1956 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotherapy

1959 – Horizontal Gene Transfer described as complement to evolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer

1959 – Modern Synthesis of Evolution and Genetics – Mayr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_synthesis_(20th_century)

1960 – Oral Contraceptive Pill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_contraceptive_pill

1961 – Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria – public health concern

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methicillin-resistant_Staphylococcus_aureus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_resistance

1963 – Mood Altering Drugs (legal)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diazepam

1965 – Medicare Program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)

1965 – US Life Expectancy Reaches 70

https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR02/lr5A3-h.html

1967 – Heart Transplant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_transplantation

1970 – Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging

1973 – Biotechnology / Recombinant DNA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombinant_DNA

1978 – IVF conception

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_fertilisation

1980 – Smallpox Eradicated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox

1981 – HIV/AIDS new disease and treatments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS

1996 – Cloned Mammal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)

1997 – Global Warming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol

2003 – Human Genome Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genome_Project

2010 – Affordable Care Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_Care_Act

2012 – Designer Genes Possible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR_gene_editing

2019 – Covid Pandemic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic

Summary

Microbiology, DNA, biochemistry. Miracles.

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