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Flashcards by Greta Westwood, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Greta Westwood
almost 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| How can War act as a positive factor? | It gave an added urgency to the search to find a way to store blood because it would save many injured soldiers who needed transfusions |
| How can War act as a negative factor? | It can hold back other developments because it diverts money and research away from work that is less obviously relevant |
| Changes happen at different speeds. One scientific/technological breakthrough can lead to several others in a short space of time. But these discoveries can take a long time to...? | have an effect on the treatment people receive |
| What date was the Human Genome project launched? | 1990 |
| When was the first breast cancer gene discovered? | 1994 |
| When was the discovery of a gene linked to Parkinson's disease that led to hope of future treatment + cure for condition? | 1995 |
| When was Dolly the sheep created? (clone from adult sheep) | 1996 |
| When was the discovery made that stem cells can be used for repairs to damaged tissues in the body? | 1997 |
| When was a rough draft of the human Genome Project actually produced-showing the locations of 30,000 genes? | 1998 |
| When antibiotics were discovered it was thought that infection had been completely conquered but some types of bacteria have become resistant to these drugs- what did this lead to? | This caused deaths in some British hospitals in early 21st century - led British gov. to insist on new standards of hygiene in NHS. -Shows that progress is sometimes slow |
| Partly as a reaction to some of the problems of science, what has there also been a move towards? | Herbal and natural remedies aswell as alternative medicine like acupuncture. -don't use mass-produced chemicals-people feel safer -treatments been used for centuries |
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