Publications of the Week The NK Cell–Cancer Cycle: Advances and New Challenges in NK Cell–Based Immunotherapies Bald, T., et al. | July 30, 2020 Natural killer (NK) cells belong to the innate immune system and contribute to protecting the…emcguinnJuly 30, 2020 Read More
Awards $3.4 Million Grant to Find Safer, More Effective Leukemia Treatments Fred Hutch | July 29, 2020 Acute myeloid leukemia is one of the most common — and aggressive — types of…emcguinnJuly 29, 2020 Read More
Local News New PI Explores How COVID-19 Affects Lungs Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason | July 29, 2020 BRI’s newest principal investigator, Carmen Mikacenic, MD, is used to working with dangerous pathogens. Still,…emcguinnJuly 29, 2020 Read More
Local News Engineered T Cells Show Promise as Effective Preventative for Diabetes Insulin in Nation | July 28, 2020 In 2015, Dr. David Rawlings, Director of Seattle Children’s Research Institute’s Center for Immunity and…emcguinnJuly 28, 2020 Read More
Awards ASHG Honors Peter Byers, MD with the 2020 Victor A. McKusick Leadership Award ASHG | July 28, 2020 The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Peter H. Byers, MD, as the…emcguinnJuly 28, 2020 Read More
Local News Seeking an Early COVID-19 Drug, Researchers Look to Interferons The Scientist | July 27, 2020 Early this year, when COVID-19 was still a localized outbreak in China, Eleanor Fish, an immunologist…emcguinnJuly 27, 2020 Read More
Awards GeekWire Awards 2020 Revealed: Fred Hutch Wins Health Innovation of the Year GeekWire | July 27, 2020 At a time when its work is taking on some of the most pressing and…emcguinnJuly 27, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Assembly of the Threespine Stickleback Y Chromosome Reveals Convergent Signatures of Sex Chromosome Evolution Peichel, C., et al. | July 24, 2020 Heteromorphic sex chromosomes have evolved repeatedly across diverse species. Suppression of recombination between X and…emcguinnJuly 24, 2020 Read More
Interesting Articles The Career Cost of COVID-19 to Female Researchers, and How Science Should Respond nature | July 24, 2020 Early data on the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on scientific-publishing output suggest that female…emcguinnJuly 24, 2020 Read More
Publications of the Week Robust Expansion of HIV CAR T Cells following Antigen Boosting in ART-Suppressed Nonhuman Primates Rust, B., et al. | July 22, 2020 The authors observed that virus-specific CAR T-cells were less functional in vivo, relative to CAR T-cells…emcguinnJuly 22, 2020 Read More