Tag: Maryland

• Friday, June 10th 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  At least 3 killed in one more shooting spree in the US

  

  At least three people were killed in yet another shooting spree in the United States Thursday. This time around the events unfolded at a Columbia Machine factory in Smithsburg, Maryland, and were perpetrated by a 23-year-old Hispanic male from West Virginia using a semi-automatic handgun.

• Tuesday, January 11th 2022 - 13:51 UTC

  Heart of a genetically modified pig implanted to a human in Maryland

  

  A team of surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical School announced on Monday they had implanted the heart of a genetically modified pig into a human being. Considered a world first, doctors hailed the transplant a “historic milestone”.

• Tuesday, April 24th 2018 - 08:15 UTC

  First ever genital transplant performed at John Hopkins University in Maryland

  

  A team of US doctors has successfully carried out the world's first total transplant of a penis and scrotum. Surgeons at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, performed the operation on a soldier who had been wounded by a bomb in Afghanistan.