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Press releases and corporate announcements from Furnetics Unlimited Ltd., listed newest first. Media enquiries may be directed to the Office of the General Counsel, 15 Sükhbaatar Square, Ulaanbaatar; institutional and regulator enquiries follow the same route.
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7 Jul 2026
Morphic Equine preclinical programme opens
The Hephaestus Group opens preclinical research on a Morphic Equine template under the Phenotype Renovations™ line — the first Morphic outside the Carnivora.
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15 Jun 2026
Second research facility coming to Laos: 2029
Furnetics will open an R&D satellite campus outside Vientiane by Q4 2029, its first research site outside the Sükhbaatar Square headquarters.
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20 May 2026
Color your world
Twenty-seven claw shades and opacities enter the Morphic Series base package. Persists through future growth; available on all newly-commissioned designs from 1 July 2026.
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24 Mar 2025
Independent Ethics Board declines its tenth proposed template class since 2014
Aggregate charter-required disclosure: the Independent Ethics Board has declined its tenth proposed template class since 2014. Seven of the ten concern proposals in the reptile clade.
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14 Nov 2024
Tail expressiveness protocol enters the Morphic Series base package
A dedicated neuromuscular mapping so the tail communicates rather than merely balances. Nine microexpressions across the four commercial Morphic templates — legibility to non-Morphic observers not warranted.
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21 Feb 2024
Nine iris chromatic bands added across the Morphic Series
Nine iris chromatic bands enter the Morphic Series iris palette across the four commercial Morphic templates. Available on all newly-commissioned designs from 1 May 2024.
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14 Nov 2023
Seasonal-cycle calibration released for canid templates
Optional client-selectable seasonal-cycle calibration for the Morphic Wolf and Morphic Vulpine templates, ranging from full congruent-species pattern through six intermediate settings to fully suppressed. Available on all newly-commissioned canid designs from 1 February 2024.
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22 Aug 2023
Pawpad texture and sensitivity now client-selectable
Eleven pawpad textures and three afferent-density bands, independently selectable across the four commercial Morphic templates. Available on all newly-commissioned designs from 1 November 2023.
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16 Aug 2022
Vibrissae package: Feline and Otter templates receive functional whisker somatosensory mapping
A new Vibrissae deluxe option restores the facial whisker as a working somatosensory organ on the Morphic Feline and Morphic Otter templates. Available on all newly-commissioned designs from 1 November 2022.
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25 May 2022
Post-procedure relational counselling network expands to seven European cities
The corporation adds Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Ljubljana, and Milan to its network of independent counsellors accepting privacy-preserving referrals from Phenotype Renovations™ clients. Referral only on client initiative; no clinical remit; confidentiality governed by an extension of the Client Privacy Programme.
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3 May 2022
Compatible-pair design engagement framework: two-party consent structure published
A legal-and-clinical framework for two clients being designed together as a matched Morphic pair, under a joint confidentiality trust with a joint consultation cadence and mutual medical-decision provisions. Effective 1 July 2022.
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28 Sep 2021
Anatomical Congruence Programme records its five-hundredth client engagement
The Anatomical Congruence Programme — constituted within the Phenotype Renovations pipeline in January 2016 to attend to morphological completeness across every body system, including those not addressed in the standard consultation packet — records its five-hundredth client engagement.
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15 Oct 2020
Metabolic Adaptation option grid: three-tier configuration now standard
The Metabolic Adaptation deluxe option is restructured into three interlinked configurations (Tier I–III) across the four commercial Morphic templates. Row-summarised Tier II remains the standard; Tier I and Tier III adjustments are quoted at design consultation. Available on all newly-commissioned designs from 1 January 2021.
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18 Jun 2020
Furnetics provides comparative delivery-vector brief to the WHO ACT-Accelerator secretariat
Furnetics has provided the WHO ACT-Accelerator secretariat with a private technical brief on comparative delivery-vector characteristics drawn from Hephaestus Group internal work. The brief takes no public position on any candidate vaccine.
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12 May 2020
Notice of a private memorial: Basel Vellacott, c. 1996–2020
Furnetics notes with regret the passing of Basel Vellacott — the domestic cat Dr. Alastair R. Vellacott returned with from the June 1996 compassionate-use trial in Basel — at approximately twenty-four years of age. A private memorial was held at the Ulaanbaatar campus; no public observance is planned.
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5 Mar 2020
Furnetics and the Kenya Wildlife Service formalise a training exchange at Nairobi
A reciprocal training exchange signed at the Nairobi Client Services Office: reconstructive-surgery instruction for KWS field veterinarians treating injured wild carnivores, and comparative wild-carnivore anatomical consultation for the Hephaestus Group.
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14 Nov 2019
Notice of a ceremonial decommissioning: Dissolution Chamber No. I
The last first-generation Phenotype Renovations dissolution chamber leaves service after twenty-five years. A single-column glass cylinder engraved with the initials of its designer, Chamber No. I passes on permanent loan to the Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge.
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2 Sep 2019
Session Four of the Design Consultation protocol: a note on privacy
Furnetics formalises the fourth of five standard design sessions as attorney-privileged, unrecorded, and untranscribed — a written procedure for topics that clients uniformly prefer to discuss without record.
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7 Nov 2016
A statement on a Halloween observance at Gorkhi-Terelj National Park
A statement regarding two Phenotype Renovations™ clients whose appearance at a Halloween observance at a ger-camp resort within Gorkhi-Terelj National Park occasioned alarm among fellow attendees and nearby residents.
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15 Sep 2014
Genetic Select opens: preimplantation and pre-conception selection now available
The corporation's fourth service line opens under a defined eligibility framework: pre-conception carrier screening and preimplantation diagnosis for prospective parents, in strict co-ordination with third-party ART partners and only in jurisdictions whose framework permits every step.
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16 May 2011
Genotype Renovations opens to standard commercial engagement
The Genotype Renovations™ service line — under compassionate-use engagement at the Hephaestus Group since autumn 2004 — is opened for standard commercial engagement, in the first instance under the non-copywritten Morphic Wolf template. The service remains the most narrowly available of the corporation's lines and continues under the corporation's internal Ethics Committee.