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Sleep expert tells why high schools need later start times

Adolescents enter a school before it starts
Ten years in, Seattle's delayed secondary school start times have improved student health and performance.

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AI BioDesign project aims to adapt nature’s design rules

With $95 million in funding from FFST, the UW, the Allen Institute and Fred Hutch Cancer Center will jointly pursue AI models to create biological tools.
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Brain signals help regulate reward-seeking

Study reveals how natural chemical feedback in a brain reward circuit shapes motivated behavior.
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Study tells why widely used lab test misdiagnoses norovirus

Designed to detect the cause of a patient's diarrhea, the test inadvertently cross-reacts with 78 species of common gut bacteria, researchers found.
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Intensive screening, infection control can contain C. auris

Universal screening and rigorous sterilization measures ended a hospital's outbreak of the potentially fatal fungus.
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CT scan radiation doses fell substantially in past decade

A radiology specialist credits advances in scanner technology, training, dose-monitoring, and more individualized patient parameters.
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