Editing 2005 (section)

===December===
* [[December 12]] – Scientists announce that they have created [[mouse|mice]] with small numbers of human [[neuron]]s in an effort to make realistic models of [[neurological disorder]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1214_051214_stem_cell.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051216102215/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1214_051214_stem_cell.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 16, 2005|title=Mice With Human Brain Cells Created|last=Handwerk|first=Brian|date=December 14, 2005|website=National Geographic|access-date=July 3, 2016}}</ref>
* [[December 16]] – [[Find-a-drug]] medical distributed computing project is concluded.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.find-a-drug.org/news.html|title=Find-a-Drug to close|website=find-a-drug.org|date=November 1, 2005|access-date=June 21, 2022|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212051/http://www.find-a-drug.org/news.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[December 18]] – [[Chad]] descends into [[Chadian Civil War (2005–2010)|civil war]] after various rebel forces, with support from [[Sudan]], attack the capital, [[N'Djamena]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Sarkees | first = Meredith | title = Resort to war : a data guide to inter-state, extra-state, intra-state, and non-state wars, 1816-2007 | publisher = CQ Press | location = Washington, D.C. | year = 2010 | isbn = 9780872894341 | page=479 }}</ref>
* [[December 25]] – An express train bound for the city of [[Niigata (city)|Niigata]], [[Niigata Prefecture]], Japan, is derailed by strong winds in [[Shōnai, Yamagata|Shonai]], [[Yamagata Prefecture]]. Five people are killed and at least 33 injured.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/national/wind-blamed-for-fatal-2005-jr-east-accident/|title=Wind blamed for fatal 2005 JR East accident|date=April 3, 2008|website=Japan Times|access-date=January 8, 2022|archive-date=January 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108142330/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/04/03/national/wind-blamed-for-fatal-2005-jr-east-accident/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[December 31]] – [[Leap second|Another second]] is added, 23:59:60, to end the year 2005, the first time since 1998.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050704/full/news050704-8.html|title=Leap second to be added to 2005|last=Khamsi|first=Roxanne|date=July 6, 2005|journal=Nature|pages=news050704–8|doi=10.1038/news050704-8|access-date=July 3, 2016|archive-date=April 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418150813/http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050704/full/news050704-8.html|url-status=live | issn=0028-0836}}</ref>