Number one on the list is the study on cancer immunotherapy.
The editors of Science believe that the strong promise that cancer immunotherapy brings in treating and combating the deadly disease is worthy enough to get the top spot in 2014's most important science breakthrough.
Last year, the discovery of the Higgs Particle was chosen as the scientific breakthrough of the Year for 2012.
Immunotherapy involves inducing, enhancing, or suppressing an immune response to combat a disease. There are two ways; Activation and Suppression. Activation Immunotherapy is designed to elicit or amplify the immune system to respond to the disease. Suppression Immunotherapy reduces or suppresses the disease.
Some of the other breakthroughs in the list include:
- CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat) which is a gene editing technique that is used it to manipulate the genomes of various plant, animal and human cells.
- A new type of solar-cell materials called Perovskite solar cells which are cheaper and easier to produce than those in traditional silicon cells.
- The discovery that cosmic rays come from supernova remnants
