08/17/2017
Dr. Jay Shendure, a UW Medicine genticist, and his colleagues have just published a report outlining a new way to take a cell census, rather than counting them one at a time under a microscope, which...
08/08/2017
About 61 percent of firearm owners in the U.S. have received formal training in handling their guns, but only one in seven say it included prevention of suicide - the number one cause of gun deaths,...
12/26/2017
Two decades ago, the notion of building custom proteins and correctly predicting their structure was a dream. Today David Baker and colleagues are doing that, with the hope that these from-scratch...
01/18/2018
Greg Ledwon, a patient with acute myeloid leukemia says he is slaying cancer and is excited about the prospects of curing leukemia. He is a patient of Pamela Becker, a UW Medicine researcher and part...
02/28/2018
A pioneering genome scientist from the University of Washington School of Medicine believes all women older than 30 should consider an at-home cancer risk test, despite some national experts who say ...
04/25/2018
Dr. Nora Disis, director of UW Medicine's Cancer Vaccine Institute, said her lab came at the problem by treating cancer, as they did a flu vaccine.
“These are mice that were genetically engineered...
06/14/2018
Why are suicide rates on the rise?
“That’s the question that’s at the front of everyone’s mind in suicide prevention,” said Christopher DeCou, senior fellow at Harborview Injury Prevention and...
08/09/2018
An emerging bacterial threat, mycoplasma genitalium, that can be passed through sex is making some headlines across the pond as the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV recently drafted...
09/14/2018
An analysis of nearly 4,000 mutations deliberately engineered into the BRCA1 gene will immediately benefit people undergoing genetic testing for breast or ovarian cancer risk. The study was published...