To the many who have gone before us to bring us to where we are!

1859: Charles Darwin + On the Origin of Species

1865: Gregor Mendel + inheritance of seven different traits in the garden

            pea

1869: Friedrich Miescher + nuclein (DNA)

1890: PT Biofarma, Indonesia

1900: Institute of Medical Research (IMR), Malaysia

1906: Genetics coined

1910: Thomas Morgan + D. melanogaster developed the

           chromosome theory of inheritance

1915: St. George's Institution, Taiping, Malaysia

1931: Barbara McClintock + maize, "jumping genes" and recombination

1944: Oswald Avery et al + DNA as material of genes 

1953: James Watson, Francis Crick, et al + structure of DNA

1961: Sydney Brenner, Francios Jacob, Matthew Meselson + mRNA

1966: Marshall Nirenberg, Gobind Khorana + the genetic code

1969: Man on the moon

1970: Hamilton Smith + restriction enzymes

1973: Herb Boyer, Stanley Cohen + plasmid to clone DNA

1975: Georges Köhler, Cesar Milstein, Niels Kaj Jerne + Mabs

1982: Genentech + Humulin

1984: Alec Jeffreys + Genetic fingerprinting 

1986: Kary Mullis + PCR

1989: Amgen + Epogen

2001: Human Genome published (http://www.livescience.com/26505-human-genome-milestones.html)

2009: Oil palm genome

2012: Junk DNA de-junked