2014 Event James Watson, one of three scientists to co-discover DNA structure, has auctioned off the 1962 Nobel Prize medal he received for the achievement; Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov paid $4.8 million for the medal but then returned it to Watson 2014 Event Researchers have developed synthetic nucleobases, the molecules that form the backbone of DNA; organisms successfully replicated the synthetic bases, implying that creation of new life forms with these additional bases may be possible in the future 2013 Event A transistor-like transcriptor is built out of DNA and RNA molecules by American bioengineers at Stanford University 2013 Event British catering firm Compass Group and Whitbread, one of the country's largest hotel chains, find horse DNA in products sold as "beef" 2013 Event European Bioinformatics Institute scientists have successfully stored audio and text on fragments of DNA, and retrieved them with 99.99% accuracy - the first time in history DNA has been used for data storage 2013 Event The Republic of Ireland's Food Safety Authority announces horse DNA was present in some beef burgers on sale in supermarkets in Ireland and in the UK 2012 Event Physics professor Enzo Di Fabrizio, of Magna Graecia University in Catanzaro, Italy, successfully takes the first direct photograph of DNA 2012 Event For the first time, a browsable, analysable overview of four million functional elements of the human genome discovered to date, are made available to the public in the 'Encyclopedia of DNA Elements' 2010 Event Denisova hominin - a previously unknown type of ancient human, is identified by scientists through DNA analysis from a finger discovered in a cave near Siberia, Russia 2004 Death "Francis Crick, Ph. D", DNA researcher, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, dies at 88 1997 Event Dr. Sam Sheppard's body (Fugitive) is exhumed for DNA test 1994 Event DNA testing links O. J. Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman 1984 Event DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal 1967 Event DNA created in a test tube 1962 Event Dr. Watson (U.S.), Dr. Crick, and Dr. Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA 1928 Birthday James D. Watson, chemist, co-discovered structure of DNA 1916 Birthday Maurice Wilkins, England, physicist, worked with DNA, Nobel 1962 1916 Birthday Francis Crick, British co-discovered DNA's structure, Nobel 1962
