Sentence examples for landmark advances from inspiring English sources

However, landmark advances in computational analysis, fragment screening and molecular design have enabled development of a host of promising strategies to address the fundamental molecular recognition challenge.

Here, recent and landmark advances in genetic alteration of members of the ethylene pathway in plants and the physiological consequences of these alterations are examined.

They don't have to be marketed as landmark advances in the fighting climate change.

New York City's digital future is brighter than ever, thanks to landmark advances over the past year in Internet access, education, open data, engagement and technology industry growth.

In the past 20 years, society has witnessed the following landmark advances in the biological and computer sciences: (i) the sequencing of the human genome, (ii) the development and distribution of software by the open source movement, and (iii) the invention of the World Wide Web.

Lithotripters were a landmark advance when they were introduced in the early 1980's because they greatly lessened the need for what was then the main therapy — surgery — that often required general anesthesia and a lengthy recuperation.

One scientific history recalled that in 1970, scientists at one of the United States' premier research institutes, Bell Laboratories, privately celebrated a landmark advance in creating a room-temperature laser -- only to discover that Dr. Alferov's lab had done the same a month earlier.

But given the disastrous track record for vaginal microbicides, the field is celebrating this as a landmark advance.

Physicians and hospitals in Texas have the authority, under the landmark Advance Directives Act of 1999, to withhold or withdraw medical care in situations where such care is futile.

The identification of Transport Inhibitor Response 1 (TIR1) as a receptor for the small hormonal ligands in the auxin family was a landmark advance for both ubiquitin biochemistry and auxin physiology.

The publication of the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network (ARDSNet) ARMA study in 2000, with its 22% relative reduction in mortality with low-tidal-volume ventilation in patients with ALI/ARDS, was generally heralded as a landmark advance in the care of the critically ill patient.