Tufts Medical Center won approval to begin living‑donor liver transplants, adding a new route for patients and donors in Boston. The program builds on the hospital’s revived liver services.

A bright blue‑green fireball streaked across northern Utah before dawn, with viewer footage and multiple eyewitness reports and meteor networks tracking submissions.

NASA unveiled the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and moved its launch up; the wide-field observatory will survey roughly 12% of the sky and hunt exoplanets.

A federal magistrate dismissed a family lawsuit over Valley View Winery after court briefs relied on fabricated legal citations, and lawyers were ordered to pay six‑figure costs.

OHSU researchers mapped a serotonin-linked brain circuit that can trigger phantom ringing in mice, suggesting why some antidepressants may worsen tinnitus.

San José State added a mobile Doppler radar and a NASA partnership to expand wildfire sensing, field campaigns and hands‑on student training. The upgrades aim to sharpen local fire forecasts and plume monitoring.

Thornton’s Forge Nano agreed to a SPAC merger valuing the company at about $1.2 billion, with proceeds earmarked to scale chip‑coating tools and a Morrisville gigafactory.

Syenta opened a 3,500-square-foot lab at ASU Research Park in Tempe on April 21, 2026, and said it will create about 200 skilled semiconductor jobs. The site will demo the company's LEM packaging tech while the startup hires engineers.

UTHealth Houston followed 630 hospitalized COVID patients for 36 months and found four cognitive trajectories, including a small group with delayed decline.

Houston startups raised $532.3M in Q1 2026 — a near‑50% jump from a year earlier, driven by large energy and decarbonization financings.

A $2.8M NIH award — the largest federal grant in Xavier’s history — will boost labs, faculty startup funds and student research as the university builds a new medical college.

Adaptive Security is relocating its New York HQ to 120 Broadway, taking the 12th floor in a BarkBox sublease as it expands after a major funding round.

Slowed federal grants and policy uncertainty are rattling UW labs, Fred Hutch and the startups that power Seattle’s innovation economy. The region could feel the effects in jobs and trials.