Today as we enter a New year, we bring to you a retrospect of the marvelous scientific advancements and developments in the year 2021. We interacted with a few of our colleagues at CSIR-IGIB for their views and opinions regarding the scientific advancements in various fields of science. 

While relishing the memories of the past year let us hope that we will be able to cross more milestones this year and step into pandemic free upcoming years!

References:

Landmark Alzheimer’s drug approval confounds research community-

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01546-2 

Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold-

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2 

Neuroprosthesis for Decoding Speech in a Paralyzed Person with Anarthria-

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2027540 

Transneuronal delivery of hyper-interleukin-6 enables functional recovery after severe spinal cord injury in mice-

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20112-4

Placental endocrine function shapes cerebellar development and social behavior-

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00896-4

mRNA Vaccines - https://www.modernatx.com/pipeline/therapeutic-areas/mrna-therapeutic-areas-infectious-diseases

Solar expedition - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-enters-the-solar-atmosphere-for-the-first-time-bringing-new-discoveries

Four seasons in 2050 – A musical composition - https://www.campaignasia.com/article/vivaldis-four-seasons-reimagined-for-2050-with-climate-data/466028

A connectomic study of a petascale fragment of human cerebral cortex-

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.29.446289v4

Seasonal Malaria Vaccination with or without Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention-

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2026330

Genetically engineered pig kidney transplantation in a brain-dead human subject-

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/xen.12718 

Biodegradable plastic-

https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.abh0626

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03408-3

Chimeric contribution of human extended pluripotent stem cells to monkey embryos ex vivo-

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00305-6?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867421003056%3Fshowall%3Dtrue#%20

The Mars Rover, Perseverance-

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VIII. Magnetic Field Structure near The Event Horizon-

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe4de

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