Just to note: Marie Curie's lab books cannot be handled without protective gear and are stored in lead containment boxes because of all the new chemistry she discovered.
Unless the thing you unearthed from the 15 thousands year old underground piece of ice from the north pole is a microscopic parasite that take months to show any symptoms and turn you into a zombie to spread. Then your just patient zero and we're fucked as a specie.
nah biology discoveries are always like "we thought this lesser spotted derpy pig didn't have big enough spots. turns out it's a new species" or "this protein turns out to be less curly and more squiggly when the fruit flies are having a lot of sex"