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11:23>> 1961 invention of the colear implant and skullbased micro surgery. >> Yeah. Again, another self-explanatory little bit of medical device. Otologist William House, neurosurgeon Robert Rand, and engineer Jack Urban. They pioneered a skull-based micro surgery and an auditory prosthetic in Los Angeles, California. Um it's huge because you know this gives you the ability to reverse deafness in certain individuals. um they started using it very quickly on you know children and it's it's it's been used ever since

12:04>> the medical inventions are are really really fascinating the history of that 1961 cracking the genetic code >> right so we know about DNA and we know that DNA somehow makes enzymes and

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