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A pregnant woman poses in front of a window.

Removing race adjustment from common prenatal test
02/03/2023
Type: YouTube
Dr. Shani Delaney, an associate professor of OB-GYN and maternal fetal medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is a senior author of a study that found that results of a prenatal...
Doctor examining pregnant woman's stomach.

Study: COVID impairs placenta's immune defense
09/19/2022
Type: YouTube
A new study published today in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology shows a mother-to-be's COVID-19 infection can impair her placena's immune response, leaving it vulnerable to other...
Top health leaders and now a large-scale health study conducted by UW Medicine doctors show that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe for pregnant women.

Study: 17,000 lactating, pregnant women show vaccine is safe
08/17/2021
Type: YouTube
Less than one in four pregnant women in the U.S. are vaccinated against COVID-19, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A new UW Medicine study hopes to quell...
Woman getting an ultrasound

Pregnant patients at higher risk of dying from COVID-19
01/27/2021
Type: YouTube
The rate of pregnant patients who die from COVID-19 infection is 13 times higher than that of those in the same age group. Dr. Kristina Adams Waldorf, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the...
Fluidic network in an artificial tissue

Heat used to remotely control cells
09/30/2020
Type: YouTube
"What if we could build a remote control for cells?" That was the wild idea Kelly Stevens and Daniel Corbett had. Stevens, assistant professor of bioengineering and laboratory medicine and pathology...
Woman with hands around her stomach

Pre-pregnancy health affects COVID-19 infection severity
05/15/2020
Type: YouTube
A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found that COVID-19 infections severely affect pregnant women with existing health challenges. Dr. Kristina Adams Waldorf,...
Kristina Adams Waldorf working in the lab

Does COVID-19 affect pregnancies?

03/24/2020
Type: YouTube
Much is still unknown about the virus that causes COVID-19. Dr. Kristina Adams Waldorf, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at University of Washington School of Medicine, shifted her lab's focus...
A protein model

Controlling cell functions with a designed switch
07/24/2019
Type: YouTube
One idea for treating disease is to be able to program cells. Now, a major advance in synthetic biology allows for that kind of control that hasn't been seen before. The Institute for Protein Design...
Daniel Corbett holding a hydrogel

Hurdle cleared in path to 3D-printed replacement organs
05/02/2019
Type: YouTube
Bioengineers have cleared a major hurdle on the path to 3D printing replacement organs. It's a breakthrough technique for bioprinting tissues with exquisitely entangled vascular networks that mimic...
Doctors performing TAVR

Tailoring aortic valve treatments to the patient
03/26/2019
Type: YouTube
Open surgery has long been the convention for treating aortic stenosis, a potentially lethal condition in which a failing aortic valve reduces blood flow from the heart. But TAVR, or transcatheter...

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