News Bite - January 2022

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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