10 Interesting Fact About Medical discoveries

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• The first discovery of antibiotics, Penicillin, was the result of chance when a scientist found a fungus that grew in a long ignored Petri dish.
• The first vaccine developed by Edward Jenner uses a cowpox virus that produces immunity against the human smallpox virus.
• The discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen in 1895 opened the way for the development of modern medical image technology.
• In 1967, the first heart transplant in the world was carried out by a doctor from South Africa, Dr. Christiaan Barnard.
• The discovery of insulin in 1921 by Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best had saved millions of lives of diabetics.
• Research in the 1980s found that aspirin can prevent heart attacks and strokes.
• The discovery of gene therapy in the 1990s opened the way for the treatment of genetic diseases such as hemophilia and cancer.
• The discovery of CRISPR technology in 2012 allowed scientists to change DNA with unprecedented accuracy.
• The discovery of pacemaker technology in the 1950s saved many lives of heart arrhythmia sufferers.
• The discovery of MRI technology in the 1970s gave a clearer picture of organs in the human body and allowed a more accurate diagnosis.