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The big steps that saved lives — from cowpox lymph in a country doctor's hand to messenger RNA folded by an algorithm. Two centuries of pushing back against death. Key sections include: MEDICAL BREAK- THROUGHS; Jenner inoculates a boy with cowpox.; Morton ends the screaming centuries.; Two men kill the invisible killers.; Röntgen finds the "X" rays.; Fleming returns from holiday to a mouldy miracle.; A double helix on a scrap of paper.; Salk's vaccine ends the summer terror.; Barnard transplants a beating heart.; Louise Brown — the world's first IVF baby..
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