On Jul. 8, 2008, Stanford researchers announced discovered a molecule that kills kidney cancer cells. Ideally, the researchers…
On Jun. 27, 2008, Pacific Oncology joined with Oregon Health & Science University and created greater access to…
On Jun. 24, 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed a combined diphtheria and tetanus toxoid…
On Jun. 23, 2008, Sanofi Pasteur announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had licensed Pentacel, Diphtheria…
On Jun. 22, 2008, National Cancer Institute researchers announced that cells from a blood-borne cancer called multiple myeloma…
On Jun. 18, 2008, National Institutes of Health researchers and their colleagues figured out how to add the…
On Jun. 18, 2008, Fred Hutch researchers described the first successful use of a human patient’s cloned infection-fighting…
On Jun. 15, 2008, Australia announced it had approved the first locally made vaccine to protect humans from…
On Jun. 5, 2008, the FDA approved the use of Sanofi Pasteur’s Tenivac tetanus and diphtheria toxoids adsorbed…
Washington BioEvolution illustrates life science companies and non-profit research organization in the State of Washington by the year…
On May 22, 2008, the New Mexico Dept. of Health notified the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and…
On May 21, 2008, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2007 that prohibited health insurers and employers from…
On May 21, 2008, the North Carolina School of Pharmacy was renamed the Eshelman School of Pharmacy in…
On May 13, 2008, the U.S. Congress passed the Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act which amended the…
Alberta Life Science Genealogy illustrates life science companies and non-profit research organizations in the Province of Alberta by…
On May 3, 2008, a major expansion of Oregon State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine’s large animal clinical…
On May 2, 2008, Gov. Jim Doyle and UW–Madison alumni John and Tashia Morgridge joined the UW–Madison community…
On Apr. 29, 2008, National Cancer Institute (NCI) researchers identified a pattern of gene activity in mice that…
On Apr. 25, 2008, marked the first-ever World Malaria Day established by the United Nations to ensure that…
On Apr. 18, 2008, the Claude Moore Health Education and Research Center opened in Northern Virginia and houses…
On Apr. 3, 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved new rotavirus vaccine (Rotarix) for use…
Apr. 1, 2008, a team of researchers from Stanford’s School of Medicine announced they had developed a new…
On Mar. 6, 2008, DNA mutations found in a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that has a poor prognosis…
On Feb. 29, 2008, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced it had begun distribution…
On Feb. 28, 2008, Rare Disease Day (also known as an “orphan” disease), was established by the European…
On Feb. 27, 2008, the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP) voted to expand influenza…
On Feb. 6, 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault was opened on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near…
On Feb 25, 2008, the Pacific Northwest Research Institute changed its name to Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute…
On Feb. 19, 2008, Lokey Laboratories which house the Nanoscience Research Center at the University of Oregon (UO)…
On Jan. 22, 2008, an international research consortium announced the 1000 Genomes Project, an ambitious effort that involved…