Science & Tech landmarks 2007

In no special order/rate.

biomolecular/life sciences:

Stem cells: 2 teams of researchers were able to grow stem cells from adult skin tissues (published in Cell and Science). This possibility eliminates the ethical concerns about stem cells and the use of embryos.
Meanwhile, in Portland embryonic stem cells from monkeys were cloned opening the door to human stem cell cloning (published in Nature).
And at the Londoner Imperial College bone marrow stem cells were grown into a human heart valve.


In an access of dubious vanity Craig Venter published is own genome...
Unfortunately for him he was not the first. James Watson genome had been published a couple of months earlier...