A small protein molecule, engineered through computer design, protects against diverse strains of influenza in mice. Its preventive and therapeutic power does not depend on the animals’ own immune...
Seasha Hassett pondered the invitation from a UW Medicine doctor: Would she be willing to enroll her twins, born prematurely at 25 weeks' gestation, in a trial of a new therapy that might prevent...
More than 50 children and 10 parents received free dental care at the University of Washington Center for Pediatric Dentistry on Feb. 27 in an event marking the end of Children’s Dental Health...
On July 11, 2015, eight people crowded into a clinic room at UW Medical Center, expectantly watching Steven Gilbert.
They included his neurologist, neurophysiologist, and his partner of more than...
A Harborview Medical Center neurosurgeon performed an emergency procedure this week that saved a Seattle teenager from a potentially devastating stroke.
Bella Anderson, a Ballard High School senior...
The Zika virus definitely causes birth defects, according to a special report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published April 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The author...
A collaboration of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, UW Medicine and Group Health has expanded online resources on aging, dementia and traumatic brain injury (TBI).
The brain-map.org website ...
GeekWire reports the news that biochemists at the UW Institute for Protein Design have engineered complex protein molecules with additional chemical bonds that can be mixed and matched like the base...
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A team of University of Washington surgeons have rebuilt a patient’s upper jaw and hard palate in a rare procedure that employed three-...
The results of an exploratory clinical trial indicate that a wearable artifical kidney could be developed as a viable, new dialysis technology. Some redesigns would be required to overcome device-...