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Since 1999, the editors of Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research we find most exciting; today that collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. Their work--spanning medicine, computing, communications, electronics, nanotechnology, and more--is changing our world.
2008 Innovator of the Year: JB Straubel
2008 Humanitarian of the Year: Aimée Rose
Nicholas Fang
Superlenses for watching cells
Julia Greer
Revealing how materials behave at the nanoscale
Hossam Haick
Sniffing out cancer
Jeffrey Karp
Gecko-inspired surgical tape
Kostya Novoselov
Two-dimensional transistors
Aimée Rose
Ultrasensitive detectors to sniff out explosives