They have timeouts on SDN? Interesting.
I maintain that some of these discoveries, especially in the fields such as gene mapping, microarrays, and stem cell engineering, will be hailed as paradigm shifts in due time (in the scientific community they are already handled as such, even if the medical industry has not been able to harness their full potential yet).
It took almost 15 years from the discovery of penicllin by Flemming to the useful mass production of the drug for the invasion of Normandy (and that was with the driving force of a world war to progress this development). I wonder, if we were having this discussion around 1930, if the same people that deny genome sequencing and SC engineering the status of medical breakthrough now would also have balked at the significance of penicillin before it came useful to the masses ten years later.