While we miss the tail end of the year, Magazine Science has published a list of - in his view - 10 most important scientific achievements of 2008.
1) tops the list of research in cellular reprogramming , a method that produces cell lines "on demand" reprogramming cells ill patient. As
said the deputy news editor of Science, Robert Cootz: "our first choice, cellular reprogramming, has opened a new field of biology almost overnight, and is a medical breakthrough that brings us great hopes to save lives, "
The other nine ranking achievements are:
2) Exoplanets: Techniques using special telescope, astronomers have been able for the first time directly observe planets orbiting other stars.
3) Expand the list of cancer genes: The researchers have been able to sequence the genes cells of two of the deadliest cancers, pancreatic cancer and glioblastoma. These cancers are launched dozens of mutations that "left with no brakes" on cell division and cause the cell to start the way recurrence.
4) New materials mysterious: We have discovered a second family complete high-temperature superconductors. These materials are formed by compounds of iron and not copper and oxygen.
5) Watching proteins at work: To the biochemists was a pleasant surprise to observe proteins binding to their targets , linking cellular metabolic state and contributing to tissue properties.
6) towards renewable energy demand: In order to store excess energy generated by discontinuous sources such as wind and sun, researchers have found a promising new tool, a catalyst cobalfo and phosphorus.
7) The embryo in video: In 2008, researchers looked in detail record, the dance of the cells in a developing embryo , recording and analyzing traces of the movements of the nearly 16,000 cells that make up the embryo of a zebrafish at the end of the first day of development.
8) illuminate the "good" fat: Scientists have been able to turn fat brown 'good' (white fat burning "bad" to generate heat for the body) in muscles and vice versa. This has led to new approaches for treating obsessive.
9) Calculate the weight of the world: physicists have successfully calculate the mass of the proton and the neutron from the standard model, which describes most of the visible universe's particles and their interactions.
10) genome sequencing faster and cheaper: Researchers have been able to find a sequencing technology much cheaper and faster. The technique can be applied to everything from woolly mammoths to human cancer patients.
areas of interest for the next 2009 pass through the plant genome, the elusive Higgs boson, the specification genes, acidification of the oceans and the role of neuroscience in the trials. Retrieved
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