Discovery of CRISPR & its function.
Cochrane Collaboration, is founded under the leadership of Iain Chalmers, developed in response to Archie Cochrane’s call for up-to-date, systematic reviews of all relevant randomised controlled trials in the field of healthcare.
Smith & Mullis: Nobel Prize in Chemistry for invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) & establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis for protein study.
Roberts & Sharp: Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA & mechanism of gene-splicing.
