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Inserted into a fertilized mouse egg genome, the tape then tracked the lineage of 1.3 million embryonic cells up to late organ development.

Huang Foundation support will expand AI capabilities to improve human health and address other global challenges.

New research emphasizes that dogs can boost humans’ understanding of cognitive diseases and, potentially, therapies.

Neural signaling pathway discovery may lead to more targeted treatments for psychiatric disorders.

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.

Study reveals how natural chemical feedback in a brain reward circuit shapes motivated behavior.

Designed to detect the cause of a patient's diarrhea, the test inadvertently cross-reacts with 78 species of common gut bacteria, researchers found.

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

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

Earlier detection could reduce deaths from the disease in high-risk, underscreened populations.

The first census of neurons and their synapse-level connectivity in a fovea shows unique features of the human nervous system.

Frontline clinicians said that fear, burnout and public messaging influenced their feelings of blame and inadequacy during the pandemic.

The Gates Foundation provides a landmark grant to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the UW School of Medicine.

Researchers develop an AI model that identifies patient groups with long-term health vulnerabilities.

Many don’t know remote options include FDA-approved medications and online conferencing with licensed clinicians, a newly published paper suggests.

The antibodies target the fourth wave of the drug epidemic, as mixed drug use with sedative xylazine surges nationally.

Medication reversed molecular signs of early kidney damage in youth with type 1 diabetes, study findings show.

Environmental bacteria enter lungs during an infection and transfer antibiotic resistance genes to disease-causing bacteria.

Black men who did not receive secondary treatment were up to twice as likely to die of prostate cancer as white men.

Study findings suggest that the variant should be added to tests that identify cancer risks.

An EEG study provides the first neural evidence that babies have an innate ability to separate speech from background noise.

By mimicking cell membrane environments, new custom designed proteins make water-repelling proteins soluble without detergents.

Researchers examine the origins, destinations and behavioral effects of rotating waves of neural activity in the brain.

Bryant studies parasitic roundworms whose heat-sensing abilities enable them to locate hosts to infest.

Franke family’s endowed donation to UW School of Medicine aims to increase primary-care physicians in the Pacific Northwest.