What are the discoveries that have lead up to your current work?

Question: What are the discoveries that have lead up to your current work?
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  work
Asked by Adam to Marcello on 4 Nov 2020.
- Marcello Valente answered on 4 Nov 2020:
  
  1) The DNA sequence of organism and the relative databank we have today.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing
  
  2) The electrical attivity of chemicals as a form of detection
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemistry

Question: What are the discoveries that have lead up to your current work?