• Question: What's the most ground-breaking part of science you have heard of?

    Asked by HugoBOSS to Amy, Craig, Laura, Partha, Saffron on 17 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Amy Cameron

      Amy Cameron answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      The introduction of penicillin which led to the birth of antibiotic treatments, the development of various vaccinations starting with Jenners smallpox vaccination and the introduction of anaesthesia. These three scientific discoveries have saved millions of lives and completely changed how medicine has progressed.

    • Photo: Laura Wales

      Laura Wales answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      Using the body’s own immune system to target cancer cells.

    • Photo: Saffron Whitehead

      Saffron Whitehead answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      I’ll just add. Discovery of vaccination, the very first was against small pox. Now of course vaccinations are paramount to preventative medicine.
      I am not sure whether you would consider hygene, sterile conditions, anaesthesia etc as important discoveries but they certainly were in their time and of course more recently identifying the human genome.

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