On May 5, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General declared the international spread of wild poliovirus a…
On May 1, 2014, the first U.S. imported case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was confirmed in…
On Apr. 24, 2014 an international team of scientists announced they had deciphered the genetic code of the…
On Apr. 14, 2014, Stanford Medicine researchers announced a study that found a gene variant puts women at…
On Apr. 7, 2014, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced that the Bezos family had committed $20…
On Apr. 2, 2014, the Allen Institute for Brain Science published two landmark papers in the journal Nature,…
On Mar. 27, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region, home to a quarter of the…
On Mar. 21, 2014 the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences building opened. In the new…
In Mar. 18, 2014, the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to Stephen J. Lippard “to recognize…
On Mar. 6, 2014, Merck announced that it had sold Sirna to Alnylam for $175 million. Sirna, orginally…
On Mar. 5, 2014, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced the creation of the Center for Embryonic…
On Feb. 28, 2014, the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH), a partnership between the University of…
On Feb. 28, 2014, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published Immunization Practices Advisory Committee…
On Feb. 12, 2014, Scientists, led by ancient DNA expert Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen and…
On Feb. 3, 2014, Thermo Fisher announced it had completed its acquisition of Life Technologies for $76.13 in…
On Jan. 29, 2014, NYU Langone Medical Center announced it had received an initial gift in excess of…
On Jan. 29, 2014, Neanderthal genes were unearthed in modern humans by University of Washington scientists Benjamin Vernot…
On Jan. 24, 2014, InBios announced that it had licensed a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) West Nile…
On Jan. 23, 2014, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason…
On Jan. 29, 2014, the University of Iowa (UI) announced that it had received a $1.5 million gift…
On Jan 14, 2014, Illumina announced that it had broken the ‘sound barrier’ of human genomics by enabling…
On Jan. 13, 2014, Gary K. Michelson, a retired orthopaedic spinal surgeon whose groundbreaking work generated more than…
On Jan. 9, 2014, the New York Genome Center (NYGC) announced that New York State Governor Andrew M….
On Jan. 9, 2014, DNA was isolated from a 165-year-old intestine of a cholera victim from Philadelphia – …
On Jan. 7, 2014, Sanford Health announced Denny Sanford gifted the organization $125 million to establish Sanford Imagenetics,…
In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that largest outbreak of Ebola in history had occurred, and…
On Aug. 1, 2014, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiated the Global Heath Security…
In 2014, the Institute for Applied Life Sciences ﾠ(IALS) was founded at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with…
In 2014, Siteman Cancer Center performed the world’s first MRI-guided radiation therapy treatment, allowing for visualized and adaptable…
On Dec. 19, 2013, the Siteman Cancer Center debuted the first single-vault proton therapy center in the U.S.:…