News Releases

October 30, 2019

Large, mobile gene clusters protect against a type of toxic attack by rival bacteria.

October 28, 2019

UW Medicine and Kaiser Permanente researchers to study whether degenerative eye diseases offer clues to who will develop Alzheimer’s.

October 21, 2019

Scientists find 19 variations suggestive of positive selection, and likely introduced in prehistoric times through interbreeding with Neanderthals or Denisovans.

October 16, 2019

Skin expresses its own photoreceptors using a previously mysterious member of the opsin gene family, neuropsin.

October 15, 2019

An Amazon Echo or Google Home device can use white noise to soothe sleeping babies and detect breathing abnormalities.

October 14, 2019

Investigators hope leading-edge scientific studies will translate into therapies for difficult-to-treat skeletal muscle disorders, as well as heart muscle damage

October 11, 2019

Newborns with this genetic mutation succumb suddenly to heart failure because they are unable to process milk. 

October 9, 2019

Most pre-medical students surveyed reported they had accepted or seen someone else accept handouts from pharmaceutical company representatives.

October 7, 2019

Individual acts of violence have cumulative, far-reaching physical and mental effects on victims and communities, researchers write.

October 3, 2019

Philanthropists Lynn and Mike Garvey establish The Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions to investigate the effects of aging, trauma and addiction.

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