Researchers at UW Medicine have developed a new technique to decipher the 3-dimensional shape of RNA molecules. A report of their work was published online August 3 in Nature Biotechnology.
In the...
An international team of researchers led by University of Washington scientists have found that the gain or loss of blocks of genetic code, called copy number variants (CNV), contributed far more to...
Chemotherapy resistance is a common reason for cancer treatment failure. Subtle alterations in the molecular machinery of cancer cells may help explain how they fend off the drugs administered to...
UW Medicine’s Regional Heart Center is one of seven medical programs in the United States testing a device that may improve the availability of donor hearts for transplantation.
The potential game-...
A $10 million investment from the Washington Research Foundation will enable UW Medicine scientists to begin clinical trials of a treatment that has the potential to restore heart tissue in people...
Why is it so difficult to locate and study the parts of the human genome that make humans distinct from other animals? In looking a this question, The Altantic spoke with Evan Eichler, professor of...
The U.S Food and Drug Administration has granted Expedited Access Pathway status to the Wearable Artificial Kidney (WAK) after the device performed successfully in its first U.S. clinical trial, at...
Exposure to ambient fine particulate matter caused no substantial increased risk for breast cancer overall, but higher-than-average exposure to nitrogen oxide, a byproduct of diesel engines, was...
The National Institutes of Health has announced that the Center for Mendelian Genomics at UW Medicine will continue to the next phase of a program to investigate the genetic basis of rare, typically...
A new report documents one cancer patient's experience with an unprecedented level of individualized care, provided through the University of Washington Center for Cancer Innovation.
In the study, 32...