As a biomedical scientist, do you often make new discoveries or find different ways to apply old ones?

Question: As a biomedical scientist, do you often make new discoveries or find different ways to apply old ones?
- Keywords:
  biomedical,
  discovery
Asked by xX_NJT420_Xx to Laura on 15 Jun 2015.
- Laura Wales answered on 15 Jun 2015:
  
  My job now is mainly diagnostic and preserving fertility. I don’t do any research (at the moment anyway).
  
  However, I was a Research Assistant before and studied the prevalence of hepatitis E in Scotland which I found really interesting. In that job, I used certain technique but developed the test so it was more sensitive.

Question: As a biomedical scientist, do you often make new discoveries or find different ways to apply old ones?