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Life Science News and History
LifeScienceHistory.com (LSH), “Where history is made daily” is a comprehensive compendium of life science. Simply put, we dig history and we mine data.
LSH grew from frustration with the difficulty in easily finding historical information about life science, and the industry in general. Most seemed to be the same old duped lists of facts, rarely with images, nor links for more information, and almost never sourced.
LSH news and history are presented in a concise, easily readable format with images, all sourced, link-checked and content brought up-to-date where possible, because history is made daily. This means that we bring you the history making events from last week, as well as from last year and beyond.
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UK Trials Show Paxlovid speeds recovery, but doesn’t reduce hospitalization in vaccinated patients
Read More: UK Trials Show Paxlovid speeds recovery, but doesn’t reduce hospitalization in vaccinated patientsOn Apr. 23, 2026. two national trials published in the New England Journal of Medicine report Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir-ritonavir)
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Girl’s sight restored after ‘life-changing’ gene therapy
Read More: Girl’s sight restored after ‘life-changing’ gene therapyOn Apr. 23, 2026, a research team at the University College London (UCL) and Great Ormond Street Hospital
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FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy for Treatment of Genetic Hearing Loss
Read More: FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy for Treatment of Genetic Hearing LossOn Apr. 23, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Otarmeni (lunsotogene parvec-cwha), the first-ever dual
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U.S. Military Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
Read More: U.S. Military Makes Flu Vaccine OptionalOn Apr. 21, 2026, the annual influenza vaccines are no longer mandatory, said Pete Hegseth in a video
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Lilly to acquire Kelonia Therapeutics for $3.25 billion to advance in vivo CAR-T cell therapies
Read More: Lilly to acquire Kelonia Therapeutics for $3.25 billion to advance in vivo CAR-T cell therapiesOn Apr. 20, 2026, Eli Lilly and Kelonia Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering in vivo gene delivery,
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Kailera nets $625M, biotech’s biggest-ever IPO
Read More: Kailera nets $625M, biotech’s biggest-ever IPOOn Apr. 17, 2026, Kailera Therapeutics, a high-profile drug startup aiming to compete with Novo Nordisk and Eli
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Roche Expands Foundation Medicine With Acquisition of SAGA Diagnostics’ Tumor-Informed Molecular Residual Disease Platform for $595 million
Read More: Roche Expands Foundation Medicine With Acquisition of SAGA Diagnostics’ Tumor-Informed Molecular Residual Disease Platform for $595 millionOn Apr. 15, 2026, Foundation Medicine, an independent affiliate of the Roche group, announced it is set to
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Amazon Bio Discovery Launches lab-in-the-loop drug discovery
Read More: Amazon Bio Discovery Launches lab-in-the-loop drug discoveryOn Apr. 14, 2026, Amazon announces launching AI BioDiscovery Contract Research Orgainzation. Lab-in-the-loop drug discovery has transformed research
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Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray
Read More: Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal sprayOn Apr. 14, 2026, a landmark study from researchers at the Texas A&M University Naresh K. Vashisht College
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Novo Nordisk partners with OpenAI in weight loss drug race
Read More: Novo Nordisk partners with OpenAI in weight loss drug raceOn Apr. 14, 2026, Novo Nordisk, the maker of popular weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, is partnering with OpenAI
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Hidden mutations in immune cells linked to autoimmune disease
Read More: Hidden mutations in immune cells linked to autoimmune diseaseOn Apr. 14, 2026, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH), the
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Hackers meet their match: New DNA encryption protects engineered cells from within
Read More: Hackers meet their match: New DNA encryption protects engineered cells from withinOn Apr. 11, 2026, in Science Advances, a team of U.S. researchers present a new approach to genetically
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Genome loaded onto a quantum computer in world first
Read More: Genome loaded onto a quantum computer in world firstOn Apr. 9, 2026, scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Melbourne,
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Trump administration drops court fight to cap NIH payments for research overhead costs
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Gilead to Acquire Tubulis for $5 Billion to Further Strengthen Oncology Pipeline
Read More: Gilead to Acquire Tubulis for $5 Billion to Further Strengthen Oncology PipelineOn Apr. 7, 2026, Gilead Sciences announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tubulis, a
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Cornell Scientists take big step toward safe, reversible male contraception
Read More: Cornell Scientists take big step toward safe, reversible male contraceptionOn Apr. 7, 2026, Cornell scientists announce they have taken a major step toward developing a safe, reversible,
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Life Science Industry’s Rapid Growth in Washington State Challenged by NIH Budget Cuts
Read More: Life Science Industry’s Rapid Growth in Washington State Challenged by NIH Budget CutsOn Apr. 7, 2026, LifeScienceHistory.com, formerly WashingtonLifeScience.com, announces release of a report highlighting the challenges of Washington State’s
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UCLA researchers develop low-cost blood test to detect multiple cancers and other diseases from a single sample
Read More: UCLA researchers develop low-cost blood test to detect multiple cancers and other diseases from a single sampleOn Apr. 6, 2026, scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) announce they have developed a
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New microscopy technique reveals hidden magnetic chemistry in living systems
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Zhang Kai, Yale scientist leaves for China university
Read More: Zhang Kai, Yale scientist leaves for China universityOn Apr. 2, 2026, Zhang Kai, a rising cryo-electron microscopy researcher, has resigned from his tenure-track position at
