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Jan 25, 2022 · It took another 10 years before other scientists tried to generate large amounts of penicillin to see if it might be able to cure bacterial infections and save lives. We all know how that worked out. Fleming’s scientific breakthrough, like some others, occurred not because Fleming had a brilliant idea and exclaimed “Eureka!”
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May 27, 2016 · As part of CNN Frontiers, we held a Twitter chat asking three eminent scientists for their tips on making a scientific breakthrough: astrophysicist Sara Seager, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, and ...
Nov 16, 2021 · It took another 10 years before other scientists tried to generate large amounts of penicillin to see if it might be able to cure bacterial infections and save lives. We all know how that worked out. Fleming's scientific breakthrough, like some others, occurred not because Fleming had a brilliant idea and exclaimed "Eureka!"
- Anthony L. Komaroff, MD
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Mar 12, 2024 · 2: Antibiotics. The use of antibiotics has dramatically reduced the mortality rate linked to certain diseases. iStock/Thinkstock. For most of human history, virtually everyone on the planet faced the risk of dying in epidemics of bacterial diseases that sometimes ravaged multiple continents.
Feb 15, 2024 · Weissman and Karikó were also the 2022 recipients of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the world’s largest science awards, popularly known as the “Oscars of Science.” Founded in 2012 by a group of web and tech luminaries including Google co-founder Sergey Brin and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the Breakthrough Prizes recognize “the world’s top scientists working in the ...
Aug 1, 2020 · A recent example of a Charge type scientific breakthrough is “cloaking technology” (Leonhardt, 2006), an invisibility device that has been a long-standing dream of many scientists. While it had been proven that perfect invisibility is impossible due to the wave nature of light, there was reason to believe that “perfect invisibility within the accuracy of geometrical optics” was ...
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Jun 9, 2021 · This breakthrough will improve understanding of how differences in DNA sequences can lead to increased risks of developing many different diseases. The method, which is around 1000 times more accurate than existing techniques, enables scientists to measure the contacts between different pieces of DNA, which are a million base pairs apart to the nearest base pair.