People often look to medical discoveries to provide hope; with the following breakthroughs, many will find some.

1. There are many uses for a petri dish, one of them being to find a helpful breakthrouh for Cystic Fibrosis.  A lady by the name of Van der Heijden had a rare type of Cystic Fibrosis.  After many doses of expensive medicine not working, doctors took a sample of the disease off her large intestine and made a cure.  Her body was given the treatment and responded well to it.
2. A seven year old child in Germany was diagnosed with a chronic skin disease, and he became the first person in the world to go through nearly a full skin transplant.  Up to 60% of his skin was destroyed from the disease. The doctors took gene and stem cells from the boy and made artificial skin to bring the boy back to his normal health.  
3. In South Africa, a man had a skin cancer and lymphedema.  Doctors successfully reconstructed his skin, and surgeons at Life Vincent Pallotti Hospital performed a lymph node transfer to treat lymphoedema.
4. A child born with aids in South Africa managed to suppress his HIV disease after stopping his medications,.  It has been proven that early treatment can cause a long term remission and could possibly be used as a cure.  He has been HIV clear for more than eight years now.
5. A new study has shown improvements on HIV treatments in mice. In the study, mice with HIV were treated with one round of therapy and afterward were cured.  A Nobel Prize award was given because of the breakthrough on circadian rhythms. Groundbreaking research going into more detail on this rhythm can lead to other groundbreaking research on other diseases.  
6. Doctors have hit a landmark in gene therapy by taking blood cells and turning them into assassins to kill off childhood white blood cells and/or cancer cells. They use T-cells to to block millions of copies from zeroing in on the cancer cells.  
7. When it comes to dangerous surgeries and tiny places to get to, doctors have made a tiny robot that can perform precise cuts in hard to reach places.