By Tony Morley of Time. Excerpts:
1. We found out that civilization reached peak agricultural land (total agricultural land use appears to have peaked in the year 2000, and is now in decline).
2. We deployed a malaria vaccine for the first time
3. The James Webb telescope brought the universe into focus
4. Wild mammals rebounded in Europe5. Farmers in the Philippines harvested the first large-scale genetically engineered “golden” rice crop (Golden rice is a powerful tool in the fight against vitamin A deficiency, a condition that claims the eyesight and lives of hundreds of thousands of children annually).
6. Guinea worm disease reached near-eradication levels
7. India developed its first cervical cancer vaccine
8. Lab-grown meat got the green light from the U.S. FDA
9. The SARS-COV-2 vaccine saved millions of lives
10. CRISPR for cancer had a major breakthrough
(This year has been replete with news of advancement in medical and agricultural applications for the genetic engineering tool CRISPR. Among the most powerful stories about CRISPR was its breakthrough effect in the treatment of a 13-year-old girl suffering from aggressive leukemia that was unresponsive to conventional treatment. The teenager had her immune cells genetically altered via CRISPR to seek out and destroy cancer; she now has no detectable cancer within her body.)
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