An experimental treatment for people with neuroblastoma, an often-fatal nerve-cell disease, is being heralded as a "game-changer." The national study was led by Dr. Julie Park, professor of...
Clinicians have known for years that people who start drinking as adolescents are prone to develop alcohol problems and make riskier decisions as adults. But scientists have been unable to say why,...
How a key protein in cancer cells changes its shape, function and interactions with other proteins when exposed to different concentrations of cancer drugs is the topic of a University of Washington...
For the first time, America talked together Wednesday about ending cancer — from a Cancer Moonshot Summit at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to hundreds of simultaneous gatherings in all 50...
The incidence of inherited DNA-repair gene mutations appears to be significantly higher among men with more aggressive prostate cancers, according to a report today, July 6, in the New England...
Researchers have discovered a brain-cell network that drives a respiratory phase important for the control of exhalation.
This phase, also called postinspiration, occurs after air is inhaled.
Within...
In what is being called the first-ever test of open-source drug-discovery, researchers from around the world have successfully identified compounds to pursue in treating and preventing parasite-borne...
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For the first time, abnormal brain development following a Zika infection during pregnancy has been documented experimentally in the offspring...
Media contact: Leila Gray, 206.685,0381, leilag@uw.edu
A preliminary study comparing two commercially available, next-generation genetic sequencing tests in the same cancer patients shows results...
More than 2,000 U.S. counties witnessed increases of 200 percent or more in deaths related to substance abuse and mental disorders since 1980, including clusters of counties in Kentucky, West...