This piece is from 'Science' magazine (Vol. 322. no. 5909). Reprogramming cells will certainly have a major impact on the future of human disease drug development and therapies. It is a new tool to study the cellular processes responsible for disease. Though there are many aspects which need careful and detailed consideration, this technique has potential to change the way we treat disease. Please refer Science article for more references.
Interestingly, they also mentioned about runners up for 'breakthrough of the year' research. These are:
2. Seeing Exoplanets - related with Astranomy
3. Cancer Genes - biology and medicine
4. New high temperature superconductors - Physics
5. Watching Proteins at work - Biology, Computer Science and Physics
6. Water to Burn - Chemistry and renewable energy source
7. The video Embryo - Medicine, Computer Science and Physics
8. Fat of a different color - Medicine
9. Proton's mass predicted - Physics
10. Sequencing Bonanza - Biology
Unsurprisingly, 'Phenomenon of the year' was given to LHC, CERN.
There is another article on 'areas to watch' for 2009, and what happened to areas which were predicted as hot last year. There is a good list of reference for each area.
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