The skin of what type of animal is used to treat burns?
Fish skin, usually from Atlantic cod or Nile tilapia, has anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties that support healing of some wounds including burns and diabetic foot ulcers.
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- Who discovered blood types?
“Karl Landsteiner discovered the main human blood types in 1901 and won the Nobel Prize in 1930.”
Reference: The Nobel Prize
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What were the first blood transfusions?
Some of the first blood transfusions, in the 1660s, used blood from animals like lambs.
Who turned penicillin into a usable medicine?
Howard Florey and Ernst Chain developed penicillin into a usable drug in the early 1940s, and they shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Alexander Fleming.