Awards Fred Hutch Evergreen Fund Awards Six Grants to Promising Projects Fred Hutch | September 28, 2020 Six Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center teams have been selected as this year’s recipients of…emcguinnSeptember 28, 2020 Read More
Local News Common HIV Drugs Increase a Type of Immunity in the Gut UW Medicine | September 25, 2020 Drugs currently used to keep the HIV virus in check also cause immune-system changes that might make humans…emcguinnSeptember 25, 2020 Read More
Local News Immunotherapy Trial in Advanced Bladder and Other Urinary Tract Cancers Shows ‘Exciting’ Results Fred Hutch | September 25, 2020 In a large randomized clinical trial, researchers evaluated the immunotherapy drug avelumab for patients with advanced urothelial…emcguinnSeptember 25, 2020 Read More
Local News ‘Everything We’ve Been Training for Is Happening Now’ Fred Hutch | September 24, 2020 Dr. Tyler Starr was standing in the hallway outside his lab, nursing a coffee and…emcguinnSeptember 24, 2020 Read More
Local News Open Datasets Can Support Virtual Science Education Allen Institute | September 24, 2020 For the nearly 17 million U.S. college students and their teachers who recently started back…emcguinnSeptember 24, 2020 Read More
Local News Seattle Genetics and Astellas Announce Positive Results for PADCEV® in Phase 3 Urothelial Cancer Trial Seattle Genetics | September 23, 2020 Seattle Genetics, Inc. and Astellas Pharma Inc. today announced that a phase 3 trial of…emcguinnSeptember 23, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week The Optoretinogram Reveals the Primary Steps of Phototransduction in the Living Human Eye Pandiyan, V., et al. | September 23, 2020 Photoreceptors initiate vision by converting photons to electrical activity. The onset of the phototransduction cascade…emcguinnSeptember 23, 2020 Read More
Local News Athira Pharma Raises $204M in IPO, Reaching ‘Big Milestone’ in Fight against Alzheimer’s and Other Diseases GeekWire | September 22, 2020 More than 5 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, and the number is projected to rise to nearly…emcguinnSeptember 22, 2020 Read More
Local News Taking on Multiple Sclerosis Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason | September 22, 2020 Multiple sclerosis (MS) is extremely difficult to study because the structure the immune system attacks…emcguinnSeptember 22, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Histone Deposition Pathways Determine the Chromatin Landscapes of H3.1 and H3.3 K27M Oncohistones Henikoff, S., et al. | September 21, 2020 Lysine 27-to-methionine (K27M) mutations in the H3.1 or H3.3 histone genes are characteristic of pediatric…emcguinnSeptember 21, 2020 Read More