Human stem cell research leads Science's top ten list of the best scientific advances in 1999
... are not ranked. First Runner up, Genomics: The floodgates broke open on genomic research in 1999, releasing a torrent of data that included the complete genome for several microbes, two maps of the malaria parasite genome, and the first sequence for a human chromosome. Sequences for the fruit fly and humans...Scientists identify protein channel that mediates body's ability to feel frigid temperatures
...res--above 42 C (108 F). That discovery opened the floodgates for identifying temperature-detecting proteins. Within a few years, several laboratories had identified additional temperature-detecting proteins. Last year, Patapoutian and his TSRI and GNF colleagues identified and cloned a protein called TRPM8, wh...