Editing 1967 in science (section)

==Physiology and medicine==
* January 12 – The body of American psychologist Dr [[James Bedford]] becomes the first to undergo [[cryopreservation]] with the intent of future resuscitation.
* May – Dr [[René Favaloro]] performs the first [[Great saphenous vein|saphenous vein]] [[autograft]] in [[coronary artery bypass surgery]], at the [[Cleveland Clinic]] in the United States.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Favaloro|first=René G.|title=Acute coronary insufficiency (impending myocardial infarction and myocardial infarction): surgical treatment by the saphenous vein graft technique|journal=[[American Journal of Cardiology]]|volume=28|issue=5|pages=598–607|date=November 1971|pmid=5116978|doi=10.1016/0002-9149(71)90104-4|s2cid=2643284 |display-authors=etal}}</ref>
* August – [[1967 Marburg virus outbreak in West Germany]] leads to identification of [[Marburg virus]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Siegert|first1=R.|display-authors=etal|doi=10.1055/s-0028-1106144|title=Zur Ätiologie einer unbekannten, von Affen ausgegangenen menschlichen Infektionskrankheit|journal=Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift|volume=92|issue=51|pages=2341–3|year=2009|pmid=4294540}}</ref>
* October 14 – [[Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig]] publishes her demonstration that mice can acquire immunity to the ''[[Plasmodium berghei]]'' parasite by exposing the mice to ''P. berghei'' [[sporozoites]] that have been inactivated by [[X-ray]] [[irradiation]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Nussenzweig|first=Ruth|author2=Vanderberg, J.|author3=Most, H.|author4=Orton, C.|title=Protective Immunity produced by the Injection of X-irradiated Sporozoites of Plasmodium berghei|journal=Nature|volume=216|pages=160–162|date=1967-10-14|url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v216/n5111/Antibodies/216160a0.html|doi=10.1038/216160a0|accessdate=2016-03-03|issue=5111|pmid=6057225|bibcode=1967Natur.216..160N|s2cid=4283134 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* December 3 – Dr [[Christiaan Barnard]] and a team including his brother [[Marius Barnard (surgeon)|Marius]] perform the first successful human [[heart transplantation]], at [[Groote Schuur Hospital]] in [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]], on [[Louis Washkansky]], who survives for eighteen days before dying of [[pneumonia]].
* December 6 – Dr [[Adrian Kantrowitz]] performs the first pediatric heart transplant, at [[Maimonides Medical Center]] in [[Brooklyn]], United States, on a 19-day-old infant, who survives for six hours.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lyons|first=Richard D.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/12/07/archives/heart-transplant-fails-to-save-2weekold-baby-in-brooklyn-heart.html|title=Heart Transplant Fails to Save 2-Week-old Baby in Brooklyn|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=7 December 1967|accessdate=2008-11-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837606,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081215133953/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837606,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 15, 2008|title=The Ultimate Operation|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=15 December 1967|accessdate=2008-11-19}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Starzl]] performs the first successful human [[liver transplantation]], at the [[University of Colorado Health Sciences Center]].
* First use, in a case of [[myocardial infarction]], of the [[intra-aortic balloon pump]] invented by Dr [[Adrian Kantrowitz]] and his brother [[Arthur Kantrowitz|Arthur]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Hoffman|first=Jascha|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/us/19kantrowiztz.html|title=Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, Cardiac Pioneer, Dies at 90|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=19 November 2008|accessdate=2008-11-19}}</ref>
* [[Neurosurgeon]]s [[Jean Talairach]] and Gabor Szikla create the [[Talairach coordinates]] for [[brain mapping]].<ref>In their ''Talairach Atlas''. {{cite book|first=Arthur W.|last=Toga|title=Brain Warping|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8WdlWJepgWMC&pg=PA264|year=1998|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-08-052554-9|page=264}}</ref>
* [[Charles Kelman]] introduces [[phacoemulsification]] for [[cataract surgery]].
* [[St Christopher's Hospice]], the world's first purpose-built secular [[hospice]] specialising in [[palliative care]] of the [[terminally ill]], is established in [[South London]] by [[Cicely Saunders]] with the support of [[Albertine Winner]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Mary|last=Baines|title=History|url=http://www.stchristophers.org.uk/about/history|publisher=St Christopher's|accessdate=2012-08-08}}</ref>