Accompanying Orion on that 2018 mission will be 13 small objects known as CubeSats, which illustrate what the future of space exploration and research will be: efficient, cost-effective, and taking advantage of the most innovative science and technology breakthroughs to date.
In this interview, Liz recalls some of her most exciting breakthroughs to date, discusses the advantages of zebrafish as a disease model and provides her perspectives on the current challenges in cancer research.
This week Stephen Hawking announced that he was partnering with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner on a ten-year, $100 million project called "Breakthrough Listen," the largest effort to date to find proof of aliens.
Moreover, it is difficult for a busy clinician to find time to keep up to date on latest breakthroughs in medicine.
McQueen, a favourite of the art-house festival circuit, appears to be eyeing a mainstream breakthrough with his biggest film to date, while writer John Ridley (Three Kings and U-Turn) has a shout in the race for best adapted screenplay.
To date, encouraging breakthroughs have been made in obtaining NPCs from a series of species by different methods, including primary cell isolation from tissues, differentiation from pluripotent stem cells, and direct reprogramming from other somatic cells (Vierbuchen et al., 2010; Giorgetti et al., 2012; Lujan et al., 2012; Thier et al., 2012; Zhang et al., 2013).
Education First seeks to make a breakthrough to mobilize all partners –both traditional and new – to achieve universal primary education ahead of the 2015 target date for the MDGs.
It's a breakthrough all right but a breakthrough to what?
To complete the story and bring us up to date was a dramatic breakthrough this January.
