re: aTm / Mizzou fans - Explain to us the tangible benefits of the AAU

OK does this help? Here's a few things that have come from MU's researchers. But most all of the research projects could have possibly led to something tangible.

1966: MU completes construction on its world-class Research Reactor Center, which focuses on nuclear medicine research, including medical diagnostic tools and radiopharmaceuticals

1970:MU scientist John C. Schuder develops the fist automatic and completely implanted defibrillator for the human heart.

1983:MU pediatric cardiologist Zuhdi Lababidi performs the world's first pediatric angioplasty, which corrects aortic valve stenosis in newborns.

1999:MU chemists Jerry Atwood, Leonard Barbour and William Orr publish research that paves the way for better electronic devices and “smart” drugs, which deliver treatment to cells that need it.

Speaking of Pork Barrel. 2002: MU's Randall Prather along with Immerge BioTherapeutics, clones the first miniature swine with a specific gene that causes human rejection “knocked out” of their DNA. The feat takes scientists a step closer to the possibility of pig-to-human organ transplantation