Research Paper Throughout the history of mankind, medicine has increasingly gotten more complex and more efficient. It started with people having some bizarre idea and sticking with it or having luck and finding a cure with a mistake. In 1928, Scottish doctor Alexander Fleming, returned to his lab after a month long holiday, he found that the culture he was working on staphylococcus aureus, was destroyed by mold. Fleming has unintentionally discovered the first antibiotic, which was called penicillin. This drug has saved countless of lives and Fleming was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1945 (Chainey). Genome therapy has been just a simple thought between engineers, scientists and doctors for the past decades or so. It was merely just a thought that could potentially change the face of medicine and ultimately, the human race. Through the years there has been many attempts on creating such a m...