2012
Medicine
United States and Europe
CRISPR gene editing
Doudna and Charpentier repurpose a bacterial system for programmable DNA edits.
Why it mattered
Cheap, precise editing of any genome, including our own.
Information Age
2012
2 recorded milestones at this point in the record.
2012
Science
Canada
Deep learning breakthrough
AlexNet wins ImageNet by a wide margin using GPU-trained neural networks.
Why it mattered
Triggered the modern era of machine learning.
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