2000 – present

• 26 June 2000 - Human Genome draft completed
• 2001 Telesurgery - Jacques Marescaux [18]
• 2001 Artificial Liver - Kenneth Matsumura [18]
• 2001 Self-Healing Materials Scott White [18]

• 2002 Chitosan Bandages by HemCon [18]
• 2003 – Carlo Urbani, of Doctors without Borders alerted the World Health Organization to the threat of the SARS virus, triggering the most effective response to an epidemic in history. Urbani succumbs to the disease himself in less than a month.
• 2005 – Jean-Michel Dubernard performs the first partial face transplant
• 2006 – First HPV vaccine approved
• 2006 – Second rotavirus vaccine approved (first was withdrawn)
• 2007 - Visual Prosthetic (bionic eye)Argus II [18]
• 2008 – Laurent Lantieri performs the first full face transplant