I think that given the current state of science education in the states, I'm not sure that this kind of thing is the best idea, but hey still fun.
The finalists are in - vote for the People’s Choice for Breakthrough of the Year!
4 Finalists:
A drug for many cancers
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a drug to treat advanced solid tumors with a specific genetic defect, no matter where in the body the cancer arose. The drug reflects a long-awaited shift from treating cancers based on their origins to one grounded in tumor biology.
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Gene Therapy Success
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A treatment for a neuromuscular disease that usually kills infants before they turn 2 scored a dramatic initial success in a small clinical trial. The trial demonstrated the power of a new vector in ferrying genetic cargo across the blood-brain barrier.
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Pint-sized neutrino detector
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Physicists used a detector the size of a milk jug to observe neutrinos pinging off atomic nuclei in a way never seen before. The achievement confirms a 40-year-old prediction and opens the way for portable detectors of these elusive particles, which could carry clues to new physics.
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Fixing tiny mutations
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Biologists made a big advance in editing DNA and RNA, developing techniques to transform one nucleotide base into another at a precise point in a genome. A team in China used a version of the technique to correct a point mutation in a human embryo.
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If you're interested, you can find the runners up
here.