
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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