02/19/2021
Women of minority races and ethnicities and with less education and income have had relatively lower access to 3D mammography, a technology that can improve breast cancer detection and decrease false...
02/10/2021
A Trans-omics for Precision Medicine, or TOPMed, program initial report, covering a large-scale sequencing study of more than 53,800 diverse human genomes, was released today. The findings appear in...
02/10/2021
Q. What is TOPMed and why is the paper published Feb. 10 in Nature important?
A. TOPMed is an abbreviation for the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine program, one of the world’s largest genome...
10/28/2020
A major scientific effort is underway to characterize the proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid to improve diagnostics and clinical monitoring assays, and discover potential therapies, for Alzheimer’s...
10/20/2020
Aiming to improve the precision of COVID-19 diagnostics, U.S. radiologists, medical physicists, and computer scientists have created a massive virtual library. Its collection of x-rays and CT scans...
10/14/2020
UW Medicine scientists are driving a bold, multi-partner experiment to stimulate the repair and regeneration of human kidney cells. A favorable outcome could jump-start a new therapy model for 850...
10/02/2020
In 2012, investigators at the Kidney Research Institute (KRI) started work on a concept: Develop a portable, miniature environment – a dish or a “chip” – in which human cells could be grown into...
08/27/2020
The link between influenza and serious heart conditions just grew stronger.
A CDC study looking at more than 80,000 adult patients hospitalized with flu over eight seasons found that sudden, serious...
08/26/2020
A Phase 1 patient trial of the novel, oral therapy candidate, alpha-TEA, for advanced HER2 positive breast cancer is now underway. Veana Therpeutics, Inc., and UW Medicine will collaborate on the...
07/28/2020
A new comparison of two breast-screening technologies has found that, for most women, digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT, also called 3D mammography) is superior to digital mammography for cancer...