Sentences with phrase «big breakthrough since»

The first big breakthrough since the discovery of insulin came with the advent of home blood - glucose testing in the early 1980s, allowing diabetics to check their sugar level in a minute or two with a drop of blood on a reagent strip.

Veteran lab rats consider it their biggest breakthrough since the laser - jet printer.

It could be the biggest breakthrough since the discovery of penicillin: a new generation of antivirals that work against a huge range of viruses, including ones that don't exist yet

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But for the first time since the team's big breakthrough, the device, which the team had named the Epoc, simply stopped working.

The minimum 50p per unit price, delayed for six years by a legal challenge led by the Scotch Whisky Association, has been welcomed by the medical professional and health campaigners as the biggest breakthrough in public health since the ban on smoking in public.

While Griezmann has been linked with a big money move to the Premier League almost constantly since making his breakthrough at Real Sociedad, this is the first time that Niguez has been thrown in as part of the deal.

The Messina Bridge is the biggest breakthrough in design since the Golden Gate, says structural aerodynamics consultant Giorgio Diana, a professor at Milan Polytechnic Institute.

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In an announcement likely to stand as one of the biggest breakthroughs in Huntington's disease since the discovery of the HD gene in 1993, Ionis and Roche today announced that the first human trial of a huntingtin - lowering drug, IONIS - HTTRx, demonstrates that it reduces mutant huntingtin in the nervous system, and is safe and well - tolerated.

A Bigger Splash — the title presumably taken from David Hockney's celebrated painting of a California pool — marks director Luca Guadagnino's first feature since his breakthrough, I Am Love.

The market for Arte Povera has grown steadily since 2003, although a breakthrough moment came in February 2014 with Eyes Wide Open: An Italian Vision, an auction at Christie's in London of the biggest collection of Arte Povera works ever brought to market which saw fifteen artist records set in a single night.

Done right, their emergence could be the biggest diplomatic breakthrough in climate negotiations since the first Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

And since the CPU is generally the # 1 or # 2 biggest power hog in a computer, this breakthrough could make a pretty big difference.

«The Blockchain is the single biggest technological breakthrough since the Internet.

If true, it will be the biggest breakthrough in battery technology since the lithium - ion pack first came out.