2011 In Technology
The year 2011 involved many significant scientific events, including the first artificial organ organ transplant, transplant, the launch of China's first Tiangong-1, space station and the growth of the world population to seven billion. The year saw a total of 2011 in spaceflight, 78 successful orbital spaceflights, as well as numerous advances in fields such as electronics, medicine, genetics, climatology and robotics. 2011 was declared the International Year of Forests and International Year of Chemistry, Chemistry by the United Nations. Events, discoveries and inventions January * 3 January – American pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson announces a partnership for the development of a test for the detection of metastatic cancer in the bloodstream. * 5 January ** Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania find that a major cause of baldness may be related to the inability of some stem cells to grow into full-sized hair Hair follicle, follicles. ** An engineer ...
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