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Friday, September 23, 2022

Patient receives region’s 1st DCD heart transplant

a donor heart beats in the Organ Care System before it is transplanted

UW Medicine and LifeCenter Northwest partnered on a momentous donation-after-circulatory-death procedure for an Oregon man.

illustration of baby within uterus, placenta

September 19, 2022

COVID-19 zaps placenta’s immune response, study finds

This damage occurs even if the mother has a mild case of COVID-19, OB-GYN researchers found.

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of monkeypox virus on the surface of infected cells

September 16, 2022

Enrollees sought for trial of drug to treat monkeypox

UW Medicine is part of a study aiming to enroll more than 500 adults with the virus, including pregnant and immune-deficient people.

Proteins designed using an ultra-rapid software tool called ProteinMPNN were much more likely to fold up as intended

September 15, 2022

Beyond AlphaFold: AI excels at creating new proteins

Papers in Science show how machine learning can accelerate solutions for protein design challenges.

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What dogs & their owners are teaching scientists about cognitive & physical changes during the canine lifespan @DogAgingProject @mkaeberlein. Article @ljevanso in @KnowableMag reprinted @TheAtlantic https://t.co/H5PPMV9cGA

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#DocsWithDisabilities advisory board member @jbullockruns @UWNephrology tells @TIME reporter @abbyadams that he would like to see hospitals & med schools standardize how they handle accommodations for physicians with disabilities https://t.co/Yz4qkQgv1j

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RT @UWHusky_IDDRC: Greetings! Follow us @UWHusky_IDDRC for the latest findings and news from the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilitie…

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How heat hurts: @ConversationUS looks back over its past few years of heat wave explainers to relay 5 reasons why excessive heat is so dangerous. In 2020, Dr. William Calvin, emeritus @UWPsychiatry, wrote about the physiology of heat-related dehydration https://t.co/jP4KRIGc9H

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RT @SeattleMet: BA.5 and its omicron siblings have “greatly diverged from the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 strain” according to @UWMedicine. Its mu…

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RT @NIHAging: Understanding the cause of #Alzheimers disease is a big step toward treatments & prevention. The @AllenInstitute, @UWMedicine…

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"Knowing that we’re going to have 90-degree temperatures in Seattle for years to come ... you have to just think a lot differently about what you can and can’t do,” said Susie Rantz, a #longCOVID patient of @JannaFriedlyMD. https://t.co/tZGfG7rFZZ @UWRehabMed @UWMedicine

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Dr. Susan Ott @UWMedicine tells Herb Weisbaum @newsradionw that we all need to have some vitamin D, but not more than 800 units a day. @UWDeptMedicine @UWEndocrinology Listen to the story and study findings. https://t.co/1husA4bMpC

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Several ways consuming too much alcohol can interfere with efforts to maintain a healthy weight & with exercise routines @BusinessInsider. @UWMedicine nutritionist Judy Simon was interviewed by Willa Hart for this item https://t.co/64CedczysT

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"What we're trying to do with this study is to look at cell vulnerability early on in disease, before [people] have plaques and tangles, before they have cognitive impairment." – Dr. Dirk Keene @uwlabmedpath. https://t.co/9ruMj5fLjV @UWNeurosurgery @UWMedNSI @AllenInstitute

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Patient receives region’s 1st DCD heart transplant

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COVID-19 zaps placenta’s immune response, study finds

Enrollees sought for trial of drug to treat monkeypox

Beyond AlphaFold: AI excels at creating new proteins

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