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Kane 謝凱堯
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Forssmann won a ‘56 Nobel for shoving a catheter up his arm til it reached his heart. Marshall won an ‘05 Nobel for showing ulcers were bacterial by chugging a bacteria cocktail. We should be thankful for smart people that are willing to risk it all for the rest of us dummies.
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A scientist who successfully treated her own breast cancer by injecting the tumour with lab-grown viruses has sparked discussion about the ethics of self-experimentation go.nature.com/3NXqzEq
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james eel.
@mentally_eel
Wait the bacterial ulcer guy did that in 2005? I'd heard that anecdote but I thought it was from the 40s or something. Holy Hell.
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@billyhu6
Whoever the first person was that came up with the idea of IV fluids, inserting a needle into a vein and pumping in what was probably water at the time, has saved likely hundreds of millions of lives, maybe more
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