In the 1930s, HPV
wasn’t on the radar for most scientists.Four decades passed before anyone connected
HPV with cervical, penile, or anal cancer, and it took even longer before scientists
developed a prophylactic vaccine.
The discovery of insulin and its role in diabetes began with extracting canine pancreatic secretions and culminated in the first artificial pancreas in 2016.
Seventy years of scientific advancements led to a 10,000-fold improvement in protein detection sensitivity and the possibility of early disease diagnosis.
Following innovations in amplification and scaling over the past 30 years, single cell sequencing technologies have permeated all corners of biomedical research, providing cellular insights into diseases such as heart failure or the immune response during COVID-19 infection.