02/16/2021
The COVID-19 infection rate among pregnant women was estimated to be 70% higher than in similarly aged adults in Washington state, according to a new study published today in American Journal of...
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...
01/27/2021
Contracting COVID-19 while pregnant can have deadly consequences for the mother, a new study published today in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology shows.
The study, which followed 240...
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...
04/16/2020
The bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, likely uses a single gene to escape the immune system, new research from UW Medicine in Seattle suggests.
The finding may help explain how...
02/07/2020
How do some mammals postpone the development of their embryos to await better conditions for having offspring? A recent study at the UW Medicine Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine...
01/30/2020
The first genetic analysis of schizophrenia in an ancestral African population, the South African Xhosa, is reported in the Jan 31 edition of Science. An international group of scientists conducted...
12/19/2019
Atomic-level studies of the architecture of tiny sodium channel proteins, critical to generating electrical signals that start off each beat of the heart, are imparting striking details about their...
10/31/2019
A cluster of antibiotic-resistant bacteria called Campylobacter coli has been found in men who have sex with men (MSM) in Seattle and Montreal, researchers report in a new study. A cluster is a group...
10/30/2019
Inside your gut, a quiet battle is raging among many bacteria competing for survival. A new study suggests how some gut bacteria might acquire a defensive arsenal against a type of toxic assault...