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The year 1986 in Science and Technology observed many events, some of which are included in the list below.

ASTRONOMY AND SPACE EXPLORATION

January 24 - Voyager 2 space probe makes first encounter with Uranus

January 28 - Space Shuttle Challenger explodes on launch, killing all seven astronauts aboard.

February 19 - The Soviet Union launches the '' Mir '' Space Station

March 8 - Japanese spacecraft Suisei flies by Halley's Comet , studying its UV hydrogen corona and solar wind.

BIOLOGY

containing parts from mouse and human antibodies, a required first step toward the development of Humanized Antibodies used later as medical therapeutics (such as Infliximab ).

COMPUTER SCIENCE

April 3 - IBM unveils the PC Convertible , the first Laptop Computer .

Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP) was visualized.

MEDICINE

FDA approval of the first Monoclonal Antibody drug, Muronomab-CD3 (also known as Orthoclone OKT3), for treatment of Transplant Rejection .

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- Physics - Ernst Ruska , Gerd Binnig , Heinrich Rohrer

--- Chemistry - Dudley R. Herschbach , Yuan T. Lee , John C. Polanyi

--- Medicine - Stanley Cohen , Rita Levi-Montalcini

Turing Award - John Hopcroft , Robert Tarjan

Wollaston Medal For Geology - Claude Jean Allègre

BIRTHS

DEATHS

January 28 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51-L :

--- Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939 )

--- Michael J. Smith (b. 1945 )

--- Judith Resnik (b. 1949 )

--- Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946 )

--- Ronald McNair (b. 1950 )

--- Greg Jarvis (b. 1944 )

--- Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948 )

Zhang Yuzhe (b. 1902 ), Chinese Astronomer .

REFERENCES

# Jones P.T.; Dear P.H.; Foote J.; Neuberger M.S.; and Winter G. (1986). Replacing the complementarity-determining regions in a human antibody with those from a mouse. ''Nature'' 321(6069), 522-525. PMID 3713831.
# Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). Immunotherapy: past, present and future . ''Nature Medicine'' 9, 269-277.

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