The building blocks of scientific discovery
Eureka moments in science are often the result of decades of work by dozens of individuals. According to scientist Sarah Fortune, lifesaving treatments for deadly diseases begin when scientists around the world put together their own pieces of a larger puzzle. She says it is vital to fund that research now.
“Work in the lab and the link to clinical care is like a giant Lego set,” according to Fortune, chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “Everybody’s putting together blocks, and sometimes you actually stumble across a really big block, where you’re really making an enormous contribution to clinical care, and sometimes you’re just putting together the little pieces that collectively will lead to a big block.”
