The Scientist’s Biggest Stories in Bioscience 2005
About four more weeks until the end of 2005 and The Scientist has unveiled its list of “touchstone events for the life sciences.”
- Cloning
- Avian/Bird Flu
- Intelligent Design
- Hurricane Katrina and its effect on research
- International Haplotype Mapping (HapMap) Project
David R. Bentley, former head of Human Genetics at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute now chief scientist at Solexa:
Just as the Human Genome Project began to provide the first answers to the question, ‘What makes us human?’ the International Haplotype Mapping Project provides the first real answer to the question, ‘How similar are we to each other?’
I’d also add blogs and the fantastic scientific conversations they stimulated this year among professional and amateur scientists alike.
What else would you add to the list?
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Check out what others are saying about this post...[...] One of the year’s biggest stories in bioscience appears to have been make-believe. In May, scientists in South Korean announced that they’d been able to clone eleven embryonic stem cell lines containing the DNA of patients who suffered from diseases such as Parkinson’s, diabetes, and spinal cord injury. The hope was that the cloned stem cells could be used therapeutically via transplantation without fear of rejection. [...]