09/30/2019
A new monoclonal antibody has been shown to impede the fusion machinery henipaviruses use to merge with the membrane of cells they are attempting to breach. The antibody halts the attack by blocking...
09/23/2019
A completely new, comprehensive human genome reference will be created in a National Institutes of Health-funded, multi-institutional initiative. The Human Pangenome Project will be based on the...
04/16/2019
What is the Institute for Protein Design?
The Institute for Protein Design was established at the University of Washington School of Medicine in 2012 and is housed within the school’s Department of...
02/07/2019
New information is unfolding on the genetic controls of an early turning point in pregnancy. As the tiny, dividing cell mass, the blastocyst, travels from the oviduct and lodges in the wall of the...
01/22/2019
The Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine has announced the launch of the Seattle Flu Study to better understand how influenza and other contagious diseases spread, and to gather information...
09/26/2018
The Northwest Genomics Center at the University of Washington in Seattle will become one of three genome centers around the country for the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program. ...
08/03/2018
Scientists have completed a major effort to map the regulatory landscape of the mouse genome at a single-cell resolution.
The team applied a special assay that they had previously developed to...
07/10/2018
Activation of a single type of neuron appears to trigger hot-flash-like symptoms in mice. In the July 10 issue of Cell Reports, researchers show that so-called Kiss1 neurons in the hypothalamus may...
06/07/2018
New, higher-quality assemblies of great ape genomes have now been generated without the guidance of the human reference genome. The effort to reduce "humanizing" discovery bias in great ape genomes...
05/23/2018
Higher concentrations of carbon dioxide are associated with reductions in protein and multiple key nutrients in rice, according to a new field study by an international team of scientists.
The study...