She says the discovery of DNA was the first big scientific breakthrough that altered the way contemporary crime novels were structured.

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In the late 19th century, the painting was a scientific breakthrough.

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While a scientific breakthrough in its own right, it also brings the possibility of curing genetic diseases, growing new organs and even making a carbon copy of human beings one step closer.

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But companies have billions of dollars of investment and years of research on the line, with Myriad arguing that without the ability to recoup their investment through the profits that patents bring, breakthrough scientific discoveries needed to combat all kind of medical maladies wouldn't happen.

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Specialists were well aware that public funding was the only source of support for the early development of scientific and cultural knowledge, for fundamental experimentation, for breakthrough creativity.

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The breakthrough was hailed as one of the greatest in scientific history.

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To create breakthrough innovation in cooking is not by the classic scientific method of carefully-planned-in-advance-and-in-detail research, or teleological, activities, but through trial and error.

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After all, if any radical new technology works, he says, a savvy inventor ought to skip the media and publish the details of their discovery in a credible scientific journal to establish that he, or she, made the breakthrough first.

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