Only 30 years ago, high-tech developments like the mobile phone and Internet made their debut to society to change our ways of communication. In 1983, the polymerase chain reaction was developed by Nobel laureate Kay Mullis, which has since turned into an indispensable tool for medical, biological, and forensic applications. Paradoxical- ly, it was also the year Barney Clark, the first recipient of a donor heart, died.
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