News Bite - January 2022
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News Bites are monthly episodes where Danielle and Jeff break down important topics surrounding the field of biomedical research (and some unrelated topics).
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In this News Bite edition, Jeff and Danielle discuss:
- A new type of vaccine to combat addiction, specifically opioid addictions
- The first ever pig to human heart transplant
- Goldfish being able to drive
- The possibility to one day regrow human knee cartilage thanks to rabbits in research
Links to all these stories can be found below
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Resources & Links:
- To fight opioid crisis, UW researchers take new shot at developing vaccine against addictive drugs | The Spokesman-Review
- Man gets genetically-modified pig heart in world-first transplant - BBC News
- Watch This Goldfish Drive an Aquarium on Wheels | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
- Knee cartilage regrown in rabbits using electric nanomaterial - BBC Science Focus Magazine
- Tour an Animal Research Laboratory
- Americans for Medical Progress
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