History of medicine: 21st century

History of medicine: 20th century

2000s decade

• February 2004 : First licensing of an angiogenesis inhibitor therapy for cancer: bevacizumab.
• November 2008 : First live birth resulting from whole ovarian transplantation. 

2010s decade

• March 2010: First full-face transplantation.
• January 2011 : Case report of successful skin regeneration after using a 'skin gun'  spray cells onto deep dermal burns.
• March 2011 : First clinical trial (Phase 1) of human genetic engineering: blood was extracted from the patients, the T-cells were altered (by zinc-finger nucleases) and then transfused back into the body.
• July 2013 : Vascularized and functional human liver tissue was generated from human induced pluripotent stem cells by transplantation of liver buds created in vitro.
• October 2014 : First uterine transplantation to result in a live birth.
• December 2014 : First successful transplantation of neonatal organs.
• November 2017 : First publication of a regeneration of the entire human epidermis using transgenic stem cells.
• 2018 : Patients regained voluntary control of paralysed muscles after a course of temporospatially selective spinal cord stimulation and physical therapy.
  
• September 2018 : First report of in-body human genetic engineering (zinc-finger nucleases). 
• October 2018 : Researchers teach a deep convolutional neural network to distinguish between two types of lung cancer and normal lung tissue from histopathology slides.
• November 2018 : First report of gene edited embryos implanted inside a pregnant woman.
• July 2019 : Publication of a prospective case series of nerve transfer surgery. It reported successful grafting of nerves to correct upper limb function in tetraplegic patients. 
• 24-27 December 2019: First identification of SARS-CoV2, the causative organism in the COVID19 pandemic.

2020s decade

• 2020: Extensive research into SARS-CoV2 and COVID19.