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Facing a 40% higher demand and a loss of donors from population displacements, Ukraine’s blood system adapted to meet military and civilian needs.

A new open-source generative model surpasses its predecessors by using biomolecular reasoning to solve difficult design problems.

In two studies published in Nature, computationally designed enzymes cut disease-related proteins at precise sites.

The placenta pays a price for fighting influenza, researchers say, a finding that adds urgency to vaccination.

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.