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Chernobyl
Nuclear accident happened at Vladimir Ilich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant, 18 km from Chernobyl city, Ukraine. Taken together with the Fukushima I nuclear accident in Japan 2011, as the most serious on the International Scale of Nuclear Accidents. It is one of the biggest environmental disasters in history. -
Dolly the Sheep
It was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. The experiment was carried out by scientists Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell of the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh. Dolly had offspring and died sacrificed in 2003 due to a progressive disease of the lung. Dolly also sparked an intense moral debate about the ethical limits of science -
Cellular Reprogramming
This technique makes it possible, among other things, that a cell of the skin or hair becomes a neuron or any other cell type of the 220 that make up our body. The creator of this technique is the japanese Shinya Yamanaka, received in 2012, a nobel together with the British scientist John B. Gurdon, Nobel laureate for his research. -
Sequencing of a Human DNA
In 2003, an international consortium made up of scientists from six countries deciphered the complete sequence (99.99%) of the so-called book of life: the human genome, two years ahead of schedule. In the long helix-shaped chain that has the DNA, the thousands of genes with the instructions for the operation of a human being are hidden. Its sequencing has meant very important developments in the field of knowledge. -
Boson of Higgs
The Higgs boson or Higgs particle is an elementary particle proposed in the Standard Model of particle physics. It receives its name in honor to Peter Higgs who, along with others, proposed in 1964 the today called Higgs mechanism to explain the origin of the mass of the elementary particles. -
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Samuel Afonso y Unai Contreras
This is our TimeLine about 5 important events from 1967 to 2017
