Editing 1994 in science (section)

==Biology and medicine==
* May 18 – The [[Flavr Savr]], a [[genetically modified tomato]], is deemed safe for consumption by the FDA, becoming the first commercially grown [[Genetic engineering|genetically engineered]] food to be granted a license for human consumption. 
* September 10 – ''[[Wollemia]]'' (the 'Wollemi Pine'), previously known only from fossils, is discovered living in remote [[rainforest]] [[Canyon|gorges]] in the [[Wollemi National Park]] of [[New South Wales]] by [[David Noble (canyoner)|David Noble]].<ref>{{cite book|first=James|last=Woodford|title=The Wollemi Pine: the incredible discovery of a living fossil from the age of the dinosaurs|edition=rev.|publisher=Text Publishing Co|year=2002|isbn=978-1-876485-74-0}}</ref>
* October – First public demonstration of the [[Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews]].<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Cochrane Library|url=http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/AboutTheCochraneLibrary.html#ABOUT|publisher=The [[Cochrane Library]]|accessdate=2011-01-25|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110105124021/http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/AboutTheCochraneLibrary.html#ABOUT|archivedate=2011-01-05|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* December 15 – Publication of the "[[Keiji Fukuda|Fukuda]]" [[Clinical descriptions of chronic fatigue syndrome|clinical description of chronic fatigue syndrome]].<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Fukuda, Keiji |author2=Straus, Stephen E. |author3=Hickie, Ian |author4=Sharpe, Michael C. |author5=Dobbins, James G. |author6=Komaroff, Anthony|author7=International Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study Group |title=The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Comprehensive Approach to Its Definition and Study|journal=[[Annals of Internal Medicine]]|volume=121|issue=12|pages=953–9|date=15 December 1994|pmid=7978722|doi=10.7326/0003-4819-121-12-199412150-00009|s2cid=510735 }}</ref>
* The [[Dingiso]] or [[tree-kangaroo]] of [[Western New Guinea]] is first seen by scientists.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Flannery, T. F.|author-link=Tim Flannery|author2=Boeadi|author3=Szalay, A. L.|year=1995|title=A new tree-kangaroo (''Dendrolagus: Marsupialia'') from Irian Jaya, Indonesia, with notes on ethnography and the evolution of tree-kangaroos|journal=Mammalia|volume=59|issue=1|pages=65–84|doi=10.1515/mamm.1995.59.1.65|s2cid=85107840 }}</ref>
* [[Gilbert's potoroo]] is rediscovered in Australia having been thought extinct.
* ''[[Flora of China (series)|Flora of China]]'' begins publication.
* The first [[gene]] linked to [[Alzheimer's disease]] is discovered. No new linked genes would be found until [[2009 in science|2009]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12937131|title=Five more Alzheimer's genes discovered, scientists say|first=James|last=Gallagher|date=2011-04-04|website=[[BBC News]]|accessdate=2018-01-12}}</ref>
* The ''[[BRCA1]]'' [[gene]] is cloned by scientists at University of Utah, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and [[Myriad Genetics]].<ref>{{Ref patent|country=US|number=5747282|status=patent|title=7Q-linked breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene|gdate=1998-05-05|fdate=1995-06-07|inventor=Skolnick, H. S.; Goldgar, D. E.; Miki, Y.; Swenson, J.; Kamb, A.; Harshman, K. D.; Shattuck-Eidens, D. M.; Tavtigian, S. V.; Wiseman, R. W.; Futreal, P. A.|assign1=Myriad Genetics, Inc., The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Health and Human Services,|assign2=University of Utah Research Foundation.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author1=Miki, Y.|author2=Swensen, J.|author3=Shattuck-Eidens, D.|author4=Futreal, P. A.|author5=Harshman, K.|author6=Tavtigian, S.|author7=Liu, Q.|author8=Cochran, C.|author9=Bennett, L. M.|author10=Ding, W.|title=A strong candidate for the breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1|journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]]|volume=266|issue=5182|pages=66–71|date=October 1994|pmid=7545954|doi=10.1126/science.7545954|bibcode=1994Sci...266...66M|doi-access=}}</ref>
* The [[Western Hemisphere]] is declared free of [[polio]].