On Jun. 13, 2012, in a project led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig,…
On Jun. 8, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that Genentech’s drug Perjeta (pertuzumab) was…
On Jun. 7, 2012, the FDA expanded licensure of PCV13 for prevention of pneumococcal disease to include adults…
On Jun. 5, 2012, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General…
On Jun. 5, 2012, an international team of scientists decoded genome of Chagas disease. Previously, scientists had only…
On Jun. 3, 2012, an interdisciplinary team, led by researchers at Cornell University and the USDA Agricultural Research…
On May 31, 2012, the tomato genome was published in Nature on May 31, 2012, culminating years of…
On May 25, 2012, Drs. Jennifer Doudna, Emanulle Charpentier, Martin Jinek of UC Berkeley and Krzystof Chylinski of…
May 22, 2012, AZBio led a cross industry coalition to amend Arizona’s Open Records Law to make the…
ON May 16, 2012, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution (S. Res. 286) recognizing May 16, 2012,…
On May 1, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved new orphan drug Elelyso to treat…
On Apr. 30, 2012, “Treatment Outcomes in Black and White Children With Cancer: Results From the SEER Database…
On Apr. 30, 2012, Hologic announced the acquisition of San Diego-based Gen-Probe, a molecular diagnostics company, for $3.7…
On Apr. 25, 2012 U.S. Representatives Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), and Robert J. Dold (R-Ill.) joined…
On Apr. 24, 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed…
On Apr. 3, 2012, the Washington State Secretary of Health declared a pertussis epidemic. By Jun. 16, the…
On Apr. 1, 2012, the United Nations Foundation launched Shot@Life campaign. Shot@Life Champions represent strong supporters across the…
On Mar. 29, 2012, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that death rates from…
On Mar. 29, 2012, Siemens, now Sivantos, introduced Eclipse , an ultra discreet completely-in-the-canal hearing instrument. The history…
On Mar. 27, 2012, the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to Robert S. Langer “to recognize…
On Mar. 27, 2012, the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU dedicated a new home for its…
On March 26, 2012, researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine reported study results that showed human tumors…
On Mar. 21, 2012, the University of Washington Medical Center became the first in Pacific Northwest to discharge…
On Mar. 8, 2012, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) awarded a five-year, $21 million…
On Mar. 8, 2012, an international team led by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute announced they…
On Feb. 27, 2012, the Duke Cancer Institute opened a new 267,000-square-foot, $235 million Cancer Center that included…
On Feb. 21, 2012, as part of a national collaboration, Oregon Health & Science University researchers were studying…
On Feb. 17, 2012, the FDA announced Korlym (mifepristone) was approved to control high blood sugar levels (hyperglycemia)…
On Feb. 7, 2012, The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, completed the genome sequence…
On Jan. 31, 2012, the FDA approved a KALYDECO (ivacaftor), University of Washington-tested drug to treat the genetic…