35 Innovators Under 35
Some members of our latest list of young innovators from around the world have developed consumer Web services you might have used, such as Spotify or Dropbox. Others are making more fundamental breakthroughs that have yet to be commercialized, such as more efficient engines or improvements in optical communications. And a few are blazing trails in fields that didn’t exist before, like pop-up fabrication of tiny machines, or cameras that can see around corners. But all 35 of them have something significant in common: their work is likely to be influential for a very long time. We hope that these stories about them surprise and inspire you. —The Editors
2012 TR35 Winners
Ryan Bailey
Shining a light on faster, cheaper, more accurate medical tests
Ken Endo
Adding spring to robotic limbs by doing away with some of the motors
Christina Fan
Prenatal testing for genetic conditions from a sample of the mother’s blood
Abraham Flaxman
Combining different types of data in new ways in order to track and slow the spread of disease in developing countries
Bryan Laulicht
Finding an adhesive that protects vulnerable skin
Juan Sebastián Osorio
Monitors specially designed for premature infants help detect breathing problems
Weian Zhao
Spying on cells in their native habitat to develop better tests and drugs
