Example of something that was a proto-invention in the 1970s and widely available now: monoclonal antibodies. You know those pregnancy tests one can buy in th

Example of something that was a proto-invention in the 1970s and widely available now: monoclonal antibodies. You know those pregnancy tests one can buy in the drug store? Based on MABs. Ditto those COVID tests. The Nobel-prize winning work that first created MABs occurred in the 1970s, but no product was available to consumers then. MABs are ubiquitous in medicine now.