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Another decade is soon to be in the history books, and the 2010s was an eventful one on many fronts. Massive cultural and political shifts occurred on a global scale, and science—particularly biology—accelerated at an unprecedented pace. From the conception and early development of precision genome editing as a tool that humans can now wield to the rewriting of our paleoanthropological history, life science researchers made great strides helping our species better understand our own biology and our place in the biosphere. Some the discoveries and the experiments were accompanied by ethical questions and ofttimes stark rejections of research directions. But here, we present some of the innovations, both conceptual and technological, that stood out throughout the past decade.
At the dawn of the 2010s, genomicists were still grappling with how to make human genome sequencing a more widespread and affordable reality. Prior to the start ...
