15 Greatest Milestones in Health and Medicine

Lecture One
TISSUE CULTURE: SOLVING THE MYSTERIES OF VIRUSES AND CANCER(.mp3)

Professor Tony Cunningham
Westmead Millennium Institute and Research Centres
The University of Sydney

Since 1953, tissue culture methods have played a major part in the work of more than a third of the winners of the Nobel prize for medicine. Without it, gene therapy and stem cell research would be impossible.

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Lecture One
X-RAYTED: THE STORY BEHIND THE FILM(.mp3)

Clinical Associate Professor Bruno Giuffre
Department of Radiology Royal North Shore Hospital
The University of Sydney

This was a chance discovery in a physics laboratory that opened the body to sight, not just of the bones, but right down to the molecules. What the eye can now see in the body the hand can reach.

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