A molecular switch that seems to be essential for embryonic heart cells to grow into more mature, adult-like heart cells has been discovered.
The discovery should help scientist better understand...
Three Seattle scientists are among the 26 newly named investigators for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
The mid-career scientists remain at their home institutions and will receive flexible...
The latest generation of genomic testing offers a chance for significant improvements in patient care, disease prevention, and possibly even the cost-effectiveness of healthcare. A new report...
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athletes have a significantly higher incidence of sudden cardiac death than previously thought, especially among men, African Americans, and male...
The last time Sean Maloney’s legs worked, they straddled his motocross in midair at the Riverdale Raceways in southwest Washington. Maloney, then 18, launched himself from the earth and landed badly...
Heroin deaths in the Seattle-King County area rose 58 percent from 2013 to 2014, according to an annual report published today by the University of Washington’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute.
“The...
Patients seeking certainty in genetic tests often receive a perplexing result. Many learn they carry a variant of unknown significance of a disease-linked gene. Such variants might or might not...
In a one-hour window at Harborview Medical Center, Maria Paulsen moves between gurneys of five people with apparently serious wounds – from a motorcycle crash, a car crash, a gunshot, a stabbing and...
Overdoses of opioid pain medications frequently occur in people who are prescribed low doses and who aren’t chronic users, according to a University of Washington-led study in the August issue of...
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...