1665
Robert C. Hooke discovers the cell at the Royal Society.
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1843
Charles Darwin begins ‘On the Origin of Species’ on Gower Street.
1953
Franklin, Williams, Watson and Crick image DNA & publish theory of replication at King’s College.
1928
Discovery of Penicillin by Alexander Flemming at St. Mary’s Hospital.
1965
The structure of lysozyme, the first enzyme to have its structured completely determined, was completed by David Chilton Phillips (with colleague Louise Johnson) at the Royal Institution.
2022
World-first use of base-edited T cells to treat resistant Leukemia at Great Ormond Street.
2018
100,000 genomes sequenced at Genomics England.
