1980 - ANZSBT History Project

WHO announces smallpox is eradicated, the last fatal case of smallpox being reported in 1978.

Blumberg develops Hepatitis B diagnostic test (pictured).

Pestka clones interferons.

Benacerraf, Dausset & Snell: Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for elucidation of histocompatibility antigens & their role in transplant rejection.

Berg (‘father of genetic engineering’), Gilbert & Sanger: Nobel Prize in Chemistry for biochemistry of nucleic acids & determination of base sequences in nucleic acids.

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