1956: Dr. Albert Sabin announces that his live-virus oral polio vaccine is ready for mass testing. It will soon supplant the Salk vaccine.
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Prior to these experiments, protein was believed to hold our hereditary destiny. After Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase, DNA steps up to the plate.
July 25: In science and technology, spheres of society where women are woefully underrepresented, this day in history offers a bountiful exception. Here are the milestones: 1865: “James Barry,” the first woman physician in modern times, dies. She was compelled to disguise herself as a man in order to practice her profession. 1920: Rosalind Franklin, […]
1925: John Scopes, an unassuming high school biology teacher and part-time football coach, is found guilty of teaching evolution in schools, in violation of Tennessee law. Scopes agreed, after some persuading by the American Civil Liberties Union and others, to serve as the guinea pig in an attempt to challenge the law on constitutional grounds. […]
1885: Louis Pasteur successfully tests his rabies vaccine on a human subject. Pasteur, a French chemist and biologist, began closely studying bacteria while investigating the cause of souring in milk and other beverages. This led him to develop the process of pasteurization, where a liquid is boiled and then cooled to kill the bacteria that […]