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...
08/14/2017
A new study describes how head-on collisions between protein machines on chromosomes can disrupt DNA replication and boost the rate of gene mutations that help bacteria survive hostile environments,...
11/14/2017
David Yamashita said his mother was his hero and his continued source of inspiration. But no one in the family knew how dark her moods were until she took her own life by taking a bottle of...
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...
10/16/2017
UW Medicine’s Sports Health and Safety Institute and Seattle Children’s Research Institute are partnering on a longitudinal study of concussions among players enrolled in the Northwest Junior...
11/21/2017
An analysis of tissue samples from 107 human brains has revealed details that will advance medical understanding of the biological bases for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia in older populations. The...
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...
01/16/2018
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria are the chief means by which nitrogen gas in the air is changed into a form that plants and animals can use. Roughly 10 percent of these nitrogen-fixing microorganisms...
03/16/2018
A report on archaic DNA in the genomes of modern people, published March 15 in Cell, expands the understanding of human origins.
“This finding offers us a more nuanced understanding of the mixing of...
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...