UCLA Program on Science, Technology and Society    Recent Breakthroughs

 
 

There have been a number of recent major breakthroughs in the field of Genetic Engineering:

Cloning an animal from an adult somatic cell. The birth of "Dolly." (Feb97)

Human Artificial Chromosome. (July97)

Human Embryonic Stem Cells. (July97)

Human Transgenes in Sheep. The birth of "Polly"(July97)

Freeze-dried Sperm. (June98)

Biochips. (June98)

Mice Cloned. (June98)

Genome Project to Finish Early. (Sept98)

French Anderson Proposes Gene Therapy in Womb. (Sept98)

Japanese Scientists Clone Cows.  (Dec98)