January: NEJM Editorial recommends haemophiliacs be treated with cryoprecipitate (pictured).
May: Montagnier et al isolate new retrovirus (LAV) believed to cause AIDS.
May 9: Gordon Archer, Head of NSW Red Cross Blood Bank, calls on “promiscuous homosexual men” to cease donating blood.
Articles and letters about AIDS appear in MJA.
McKintock: Noble Prize in Physiology/Medicine for discovery of genetic recombination by cross over during meiosis.Led by Fu-Kuen Lin at Amgen in the US, a team successfully expresses recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells.
