The Jackson Laboratory

1971

Donald Bailey develops the first recombinant inbred strains of mice by crossing two inbred strains. The resulting mice prove useful for genetic mapping and gene hunting.

1973

Composite linkage map developed by Margaret Green.

1973

Andrew Kandutsch and Harry Chen publish on cholesterol chemical pathways.

1974

Mouse Genetics Laboratory is dedicated and named for Earl Green on his retirement. Doug Coleman is appointed interim director. 

1975

David Baltimore and Howard Temin (Jackson Laboratory summer students in 1952) are awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell.

1976

Richmond Prehn is appointed the third director of what is now the world's largest center of mammalian genetics research: 450 employees, 700,000 mice, $9 million budget.

1978

Eva Eicher, Wes Whitten and Wesley Beamer publish a report on the BALB/c strain as the first animal model for some human sex chromosome abnormalities.

Late 1970s

12 of the 15 known mouse anemias are under research at Jackson by Seldon Bernstein, Elizabeth Russell, and Jane Barker (who carries on blood disorder research today).

1979

The Frozen Embryo Repository is established, directed by Dr. Larry Mobraaten (today known as the Cryopreservation Resource).