02/26/2021
A subset of patient coronavirus test samples, collected since November in six U.S. states, showed an increasing number of amino acid mutations in a region that helps the virus bind to host cells. ...
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...
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...
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...
08/04/2020
A team of researchers has developed a new vaccine design strategy that could confer improved immunity against certain viruses, including those that cause AIDS, the flu, and COVID-19. Using this...
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...
07/20/2020
A replicating RNA vaccine, formulated with a lipid-based nanoparticle emulsion that goes by the acronym LION, produces antibodies against the COVID-19 coronavirus in mice and primates with a single...
07/08/2020
The genome in mitochondria — the cell’s energy-producing organelles — is involved in disease and key biological functions, and the ability to precisely alter this DNA would allow scientists to learn...
06/15/2020
Every week, new and promising news comes out on treating and curing Alzheimer’s disease. New drug trials are starting. New therapies are being tested.
And around the country, the National Institutes...
05/27/2020
At-home genetic-testing kits for breast and ovarian cancer risk are just as effective, and in some cases even more so, than the typical protocol for genetic testing, which requires repeated office...