Medical Discoveries

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• Which physician is most closely associated with developing the first successful smallpox vaccine?
• What discovery enabled Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen to create the first medical radiograph?
• Which scientist identified the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis in 1882?
• Which discovery led directly to the first effective treatment for patients with type 1 diabetes?
• In 1928, Alexander Fleming observed that mold from the genus [____] inhibited the growth of bacteria.
• The first successful human heart transplant was performed by Christiaan Barnard in [____].
• The World Health Organization officially declared smallpox eradicated in [____].
• The modern CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique was first demonstrated as a powerful programmable tool in [____].