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Deep-brain imaging shows neural activity during motivated behavior.

The brain’s own opioids help guide purposeful action

Neural signaling pathway discovery may lead to more targeted treatments for psychiatric disorders.
illustration of a transparent DNA helix covered with green organic particles

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.
Microscopy image of neurons glowing with fluorescent GCaMP6s, showing brain activity in an awake, freely moving mouse.

Brain signals help regulate reward-seeking

Study reveals how natural chemical feedback in a brain reward circuit shapes motivated behavior.
man on his side holds abdomen due to cramping

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.
nurse sanitizes a hospital room

Intensive screening, infection control can contain C. auris

Universal screening and rigorous sterilization measures ended a hospital's outbreak of the potentially fatal fungus.