Worldwide biobank archives will need to work together and exploit these cohort sample assets in order to generate value in future science milestones that will transform value to the patient.
But maybe even more compelling are the 2012 science milestones that are still undecided; either we'll find the Higgs or we won't, and both results would be interesting; embryonic stem cell research faces one of its greatest challenges, but that may turn into one of its greatest opportunities.
In science, meeting milestones boosts your confidence, and presenting your data at a meeting to a cheering--or at least approving--audience can help a great deal.
The announcement in February 1997 of Dolly's birth marked a milestone in science, dispelling decades of presumption that adult mammals could not be cloned and igniting a debate concerning the many possible uses and misuses of mammalian cloning technology.
Being able to sequence the full human genome at a cost of $1,000 or less is regarded as a milestone in science.
The elucidation of the rice genome sequence is a major milestone in science as it paves the way for understanding the biology of a major cereal crop that feeds more than half of the world's population (International Rice Genome Sequencing Project 2005).
Today, Celera head J. Craig Venter praised the chromosome 21 data, but dismissed the other announcement as an "artificial" milestone and "science by press release --a prelease --awhich his opponents say Venterelease --achooled.
Recent breakthroughs on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have been considered as a milestone in science and medicine.
The draft sequence of the human genome, recently published by the Human Genome Project public consortium [ 6] and by a private company [ 7], represents a milestone in science.
"This observation is truly incredible science and marks three milestones for physics: the direct detection of gravitational waves, the first detection of a binary black hole, and the most convincing evidence to date that nature's black holes are the objects predicted by Einstein's theory".
