All scientific discoveries are amazing, and some are truly life changing. To give
science some extra love (as if we could love it any more), we’ve looked back on
our conversations and interviews with our life science community to see which
scientific discoveries you think are the greatest.
From penicillin to genome editing to CRISPR, here’s a roundup
of the greatest
scientific discoveries of all time (in no particular order) which have been
highlighted on our blog over the past year.
1. Genome editing
“It has given scientists the power to surgically remove - and just as excitingly,
monitor the activity of - genes and the regulatory elements that control them. This
has been an absolute game-changer for understanding the mechanisms underlying
how
biological systems work, but also the diseases that disturb them. Excitingly,
some of these efforts are even in clinical trials and hopefully slowly working their
way into the clinic.”