As the year winds down and we get closer and closer to 2016, it’s time we look back at all that 2015 had to offer. There was no shortage of medical innovations this year, and some may even change the face of medicine as we know it.

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Here are seven of the biggest medical breakthroughs of 2015. National Eye Institute CC BY-NC-ND 2.0