In 1796, Edward Jenner created the smallpox vaccine which marked the first successful vaccine and led to the eradication of the disease.
Discovered in 1928 by Alexander Fleming, penicillin was the first antibiotic and revolutionized the treatment of bacterial infections.
Developed in the 1950s by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, the polio vaccine led to the eradication of polio in many parts of the world.
In 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first successful heart transplant, paving the way for organ transplantation.
In 1978, Louise Brown was the first baby born via in vitro fertilization (IVF), which has since become a common treatment for infertility.
Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project identified all the genes in human DNA, leading to advancements in personalized medicine.
The HPV vaccine, first approved in 2006, has been shown to prevent cervical cancer caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
In 2017, the FDA approved CAR T-cell therapy, a personalized cancer treatment that uses the patient's own immune cells to target cancer cells.
CRISPR-Cas9 is a gene-editing tool that was first used in 2013 and has the potential to revolutionize medicine by allowing scientists to edit DNA sequences with high precision.