Every major scientific advance might have sounded like science fiction before it happened. Gene editing technology being deployed to treat devastating and deadly diseases in children. Viruses being harnessed to deliver one-time treatments for rare diseases. Vaccines developed at record speed to combat a deadly virus.
The field of science has seen unprecedented advances in the past year. And those breakthroughs were center stage at the 2021 STAT Breakthrough Science Summit, which explored the biggest advances in science and medicine and looked ahead to the breakthroughs that have the potential to revolutionize medicine in the years to come.
Not all the content is, strictly speaking, about Breakthroughs or Revolutions, but it does have a section on “New modalities, technology and computational tools
that speed innovation”, as well as material about CRISPR, and gene therapies.