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On Apr. 24, 2024, surgeons at NYU Langone Health announced they had performed the first combined mechanical heart…
On Mar. 29, 2024, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first U.S. human…
On Mar. 21, 2024, Harvard Medical School physician-scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital announced they had successfully transplanted a…
On Mar. 21, 2024, Eledon Pharmaceuticals announced that tegoprubart, the company’s investigational anti-CD40L antibody, was used as a…
On Aug. 16, 2023, surgeons at NYU Langone Health announed they had transplanted a genetically engineered pig kidney…
On Aug. 4, 2023, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first two U.S….
On May 3, 2023, Washington State University (WSU) made history in the United States (US) by becoming the…
On Oct. 25, 2022, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that the University of Missouri had been…
On Sept. 15, 2022, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed…
On Aug. 5, 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first human infection with…
On Jan. 10, 2022, in a first-of-its-kind surgery, a 57-year-old patient with terminal heart disease received a successful…
On Oct. 22, 2021, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported two new U.S. human…
On Mar. 24, 2021, Virginia Tech researchers announced that their candidate Coronavirus vaccines, prevented pigs from becoming ill…
On Dec. 21, 2020, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a study published in the Proceedings…
On Dec. 14, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the a first-of-its-kind intentional genomic alteration…
On Dec. 14, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a first-of-its-kind intentional genomic alteration (IGA) in…
On Jul. 2, 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced a publication in the…
On Jan. 26, 2017, scientists at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA, announced they were one step…
On Sept. 1, 2016, the University of British Columbia (UBC) announced that researchers at UBC’s Okanagan campus had…
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In 2009, Drs. Judith James and Linda Thompson at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) helped develop an…
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