Originally published at: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/latest-discoveries-at-the-healthcare-life-sciences-developer-summit/
Humanity has seen major scientific breakthroughs directly related to discoveries that do not share the glamor of the breakthrough they enabled. Sir Alexander Fleming’s penicillin gave rise to effective treatments for infections like pneumonia, but penicillin’s importance outshines a technology known as the Petri dish, invented by a German physician. It was in a Petri…