what is the greatest medical/biological invention/discovery in the last century, and why?
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Penicillin- lead to the discovery of various other antibiotics.  Even though antibiotic resistance is becoming a problem, antibiotics have saved so many lives.
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all time high. tech and powered work was revolutionized. so the most responsible item for the industrial revolution had to be communication. other peers in a field did not have to rely soley on their own working knowledge and experience's for advancement of the field as a whole. just imagine our world 100 yrs from now, knowing that in 1880 leeching was still used although not common. and also the first umm personal vibrator was invented sometime around then, and i think (heard on radio) that it was treatment for phsycopath or something, diagnosed in females with symptoms like irritability etc, but the names might be mixed up. but neat huh? hmmmmmm. i dont know of the truth of the latter. but fte and gnight.
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Michael Faraday (1791-1867) \nBritish physicist and chemist, best known for his discoveries of electromagnetic induction and of the laws of electrolysis. His biggest breakthrough in electricity was his invention of the electric motor.\nOh check out link on Peter Barlow too!
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The Human Genome project.  Advances in science and technology made the studying/recording of the human genome much faster and much less expensive than the government had originally budgeted/planned for.
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During what perios of time ( like the century) did the most elements get discovered?
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i would say the AC/DC motor. Invented far ahead of it's time and still being used today.  From air conditioners to alternators, even electricity from Hydroelectric dams. The best invention that's keeps on giving for free.  Generators that if you turn create electricity or if Fed electricity it would turn.  Works one way and same thing the other way around.  Also the wheel it was a beautiful invention and still is in use today.
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germs. \n\nI saw an interesting program on Discovery about how the bubonic plague so reduced the population of Europe that poor peasants were able to acquire lots of land and wealth, thus leading to the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution. \n\nThen the germs won again by killing off the competition when Europeans came to the Americas and elsewhere. Accidental biological warfare was a tremendous advantage.\n\nThen there's the idea that Europeans were so used to killing each other that they'd already developed quite a bit of technology to use when they realized there were other people to kill, exploit, and displace.
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There is no doubt that medical technology will continue to advance. But it is likely that the law of diminishing returns will (or maybe has) limit the improvements that such technology will bring to any patient or humankind overall.\n\nWhilst we still have rampant infective diseases such as Malaria and Tuberculosis decimating 3rd world countries and entire generations dying from malnutrition, we need to ask ourselves if gadgets that bring a little bit of extra function to a small number of people are really progress, or perhaps just ignorance?
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Well Biotech. is the hottest field, next to medical, for all those who are interested in the Biology stream. It seems that you're an Indian, if yes then this is the best option available (again except medical) to you because this field is going to change the Indian economy very well and providing good employment as well. GOOD LUCK.
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Wow...this actually exists?  That would be great if it does.  No more risk of infection.  No more bleeding to death, and this would impact on so many other medical miracles.
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this is a nice question\n&we can resolve the ans by the diff of current life & the life before 500 yrs\nthe biological changes wold be\n1 lose of appendix &nicetin membrane\n2 lose of the smallest fingures of legs\n\n\ntecnology will be much more advance\nwe might not go to office &schools
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How about the guys and girl that discovered the structure of DNA?? James Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, and Wilklins. Def all born after 1800 and made a HUUUGGGE impact in life, genome, and life. OR the guy who disocvered penecillin...there are a lot.
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Blessing.  Certainly there are problems to solve, but those problems will be solved by further technology, not by banning what we already have.  \n\nIt would be possible to provide a long list of the benefits of technology in the modern world, but I will cite a single example:  modern communication technology allows me, a complete stranger, to answer your question.  We never had anything in the past like the information tool we have now in the internet.  No matter how good a library one had available, it would still take a lot of time and know-how to research every question.  Now, it's all here at your fingertips.\n\nAsk any modern physician how many of his patients would have been worse off ten years ago, let alone fifty.  Ask any research scientist what has happened in his field as a result of modern technology.  The world does not stand still, and we cannot make it do so.\n\nRemember, nothing is an unmixed blessing.  Certainly the internet brings its own problems, but so did the technology of the crossbow!
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A whole lot of things!  But it starts with research.\n\nI did a project on the bionic eye, which was a computer that linked directly to the visual cortex and a set of glasses.  It was awesome...the person, blind from birth, could see black and white dots, representing locations, but could not judge depth perception.\n\nI suppose biomedical engineering is going to be used for saving people's lives, like with nanotechnology.  In the works are nano computers that can enter the bloodstream and work as super-white blood cells, for example.  Other uses will be for early detection and diagnosis.  As well, there will be treatments for existing diseases, and hopefully a cure for cancer.\n\nOther possible topics for the future of BM Engin. could be the construction and easy use and application of huge bulky machines, like MRI machines.  There is also the idea of radiation treatment either being improved for precision and accuracy, or if that still is too dangerous it could be replaced by "safer" radiation or no radiatino at all.\n\nGood luck!
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it depends from which angel u are looking at this?\nif you are sceintist: it is the discovery of the milennium, becoz with DNA structure u can play with gene to cure any disease in the world.\ncreate a genome map,\ncann create a history of genes in an family,\nget to the root of the diseases\nand so on......\nBut if you are conservative: it is useless to talk about.
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Here's a link to a list of inventions.  I'll leave you to figure out which ones are most important how they changed the world.\n\nhttp://www.crystalinks.com/chinainventions.html
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What we would call modern medicine pretty much all developed during the past century.