Table 1 A comparison of the top 5 open problems in the life sciences posed in 1997 and the 5 biggest discoveries of the past 25 years listed in 2015
From: What is the question?
1997: the top most outstanding problems in the life sciences [4] | 2015: the 5 biggest discoveries of the past 25 years [5] |
|---|---|
1. What was the origin of life? | 1. RNA interference discovered (1998) |
2. What is the genetic and molecular basis of neural specificity? | 2. Dolly the sheep becomes the first adult mammal cloned (1996) |
3. How are genes regulated in animals and plants? | 3. Human genome mapped (2000) |
4. Topics in developmental and behavioral biology | 4. Stem cells created from mature skin cells (2007) |
5. How can we predict protein folding and the three-dimensional structure of proteins from amino acid sequences? | 5. Robotic limbs fully controlled by the brain (2009) |