In modern times medicine has been transformed by waves of discovery that have brought marvels like antibiotics, vaccines and heart stents.Given its history of innovation, the health-care sector has been surprisingly reluctant to embrace information technology (IT).
The finding is part of a continuing wave of discoveries about the genes underlying common diseases.
As excitement at the first great wave of discoveries faded, so public wonder at dinosaurs grew increasingly tempered by contempt.
Even Dr. Gordon Kane, a particle theorist at the University of Michigan who expressed shock at the decision to close the machine, said the coming wave of discoveries could salve many wounds.
The findings were part of a continuing wave of discoveries made by means of DNA microarrays, or chips, which could quickly read the sequence of human DNA at up to 500,000 points across an individual's genome.
But it galvanised other scientists, who had never before seen atoms manipulated so completely.Dr Eigler's breakthrough came as part of a wave of discoveries crucial to the development, and application, of nanotechnology.
The dating coincides with a wave of discoveries from Pinnacle Point and other sites in South Africa that suggest that a wide range of sophisticated behaviors--from toolmaking to personal decoration and symbolism--were all flourishing at about the same time.
Today, third generation sequencing platforms are entering the markets and bringing a new wave of discoveries as they allow a much longer sequencing read than the second generation platforms.
In looking forward into the twenty-first century, understanding and manipulation of RNA splicing in the development and control of human cancers will definitely trigger another wave of discoveries in RNA biology.
Major advances in supramolecular science[ 1] have triggered a new wave of discoveries of next-generation functional materials, especially stimuli-responsive soft matter,[ 2] which could afford multiple functions applicable to emergent technologies.
