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- February 5: Compound PTC124 also proves effective against cystic fibrosis. As PTC124 appears to suppress "nonsense mutations" it may help in treating more than 2,400 genetic diseases. (PhysOrg)
- February 5: British scientists use a healthy mitochondrion from a second women to create human embryos containing DNA from two women and one man. This may prevent conditions including epilepsy, diabetes and heart failure. (PhysOrg)
- February 4: A doubling of storage capacity for phase-change memory is announced by Intel. This kind of memory combines the power efficiency of flash memory with the speed of random-access memory. (TechnologyReview)
- February 3: A new technique for reading a single strand of DNA and RNA which does not require chemical agents or detours has been developed by scientists at the Institute for Analytical Sciences (Dortmund). (ScienceDaily)
- January 19: Scaled Composites, a private spaceflight company, was fined for unsafety following an explosion at the Mojave Spaceport. (LA Times)
- January 14, 2008: MESSENGER, a NASA mission, flies by Mercury, the second spacecraft to do so and the first in thirty-three years. (BBCNews)
- January 4: Intel Corporation leaves the One Laptop per Child project's board amid controversy over its marketing of the Classmate PC in developing countries. (Reuters)
- January 3: Researchers publish the first time observation of a planet in a newly forming planetary system, TW Hydrae, in the journal Nature. (BBCNews)