Tag: medicine

ON THIS DAY: Pioneer of HIV research, Robert Gallo is born (1937)

On this day in 1937, Robert Charles Gallo was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, a scientist whose work would place him at the centre of...

Scientists win Nobel Prize for immune system discovery

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering why the immune system destroys infections but not...

ON THIS DAY: Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin (1928)

On 15 September 1928, Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming made one of the most important breakthroughs in medical history: the discovery of penicillin, the world’s...

ON THIS DAY: The link between mosquitoes and malaria is discovered (1897)

Sir Ronald Ross discovers the link between mosquitoes and malaria On 20 August 1897, Dr Ronald Ross, a British doctor working in India, made a...

ON THIS DAY: Insulin discovery transformed diabetes (1921)

On this day in 1921, the insulin discovery by Canadian scientists Sir Frederick G. Banting and Charles H. Best marked a turning point in...

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