06/23/2017
Research results reported this week in the journal Science overturn long-held views on a basic messaging system within living cells.
The findings suggest new approaches to designing precisely...
10/26/2017
The Kidney Research Institute, a collaboration of UW Medicine and Northwest Kidney Centers in Seattle, has a major role in an ambitious, newly funded effort to care more precisely for the tens of...
10/11/2017
Most cases of autism appear to be associated with the appearance of new mutations that are not inherited from the child’s parents, researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine...
12/06/2017
Jeffrey and Susan Brotman and Pam and Dan Baty have made a $50 million gift to create the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine that combines the research strengths and capabilities of UW...
11/30/2017
University of Washington researchers have pinpointed genetic variants that markedly increase HIV infection risk among people exposed to the virus.
These variants, described in a study published...
03/14/2018
In thousands of single cells from embryos, both cell type and developmental stage can be deduced from measurements of chromatin accessibility.
Chromatin stores the genetic information inside the...
03/29/2018
Genetic sequencing of tumor DNA may be simpler and better than the multiple tests now used to check for Lynch syndrome in colorectal cancer patients.
An up-front tumor sequencing test also could...
07/27/2018
New knowledge about biological processes related to the heart's electrical activity has been gained through a major genome science study. The research had the largest sample size ever of a project of...
09/26/2018
The Northwest Genomics Center at the University of Washington in Seattle will become one of three genome centers around the country for the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program. ...
10/09/2018
Downloadable soundbites with Dr. Hunter Wessells
For the first time, a team of researchers has found a specific place in the human genome where variations can raise a person’s risk of erectile...