Emma Wrenn’s mother probably was concerned when her daughter, then six-years-old, brought home a spider’s nest Emma had found in a ravine near their home in north Seattle. But a few days later Mrs. Wrenn likely was aghast when, suddenly, several new eight-legged creatures joined the family. It also foretold Emma would become intrigued with science.
Outpace Bio, a Seattle-based biotech that aims to create cell therapies, has cemented its presence in the Emerald City with a new facility and a pair of local research partnerships with scientific leaders. The biotech announced Tuesday that it secured a new facility in a 23,000-square-foot space in Seattle’s Dexter Yard to house the company’s R&D efforts. The company now…
How does a five-inch long rodent native to African and Middle Eastern deserts offer what researchers affiliated with the Brotman Baty Institute believe is the greatest hope for restoring a person’s damaged or failing kidneys, liver, or other internal organs? That is the question, as intriguing as it is complex, that Drs. Elizabeth Nguyen and Mark Majesky are determined to…
At the 2023 American Society for Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting—to be held June 2-6 in Chicago, Illinois—Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center experts will present research spanning survivorship, advances in treatments and clinical trials, how access to cancer care affects outcomes, integrative medicine and more. Featured Fred Hutch presentations and poster sessions are listed below; for a full list of Fred Hutch research at…
BBI Member Dr. Kimberly Aldinger, assistant professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Genetic Medicine and an adjunct assistant professor of Neurology at the University of Washington. She is also a principal investigator in the Center for Integrative Brain Research at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. BBI: Thanks for being with us today Dr. Aldinger! Could you first tell us the story…
U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, toured the Allen Institute—which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Senator Murray visited the brain sciences, neural dynamics, cell sciences, and immunology labs and heard from top scientists about the groundbreaking work the Institute has been doing. Senator Murray is a longstanding champion of biomedical research in Congress. Throughout…
At the UW ADRC, senior and junior investigators convene at a monthly meeting called the Tau Working Group. This mentoring and study group serves as an incubator to generate new studies and mentor junior investigators. It’s a chance for investigators to bounce their hypotheses off their peers, strike up collaborations, give updates on ongoing projects, and get help with developing…
Outpace Bio, a company using protein design and cell engineering to create advanced cell therapies with curative potential, today announced the expansion of its research facilities and new collaborations with leading scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington School of Medicine. With a new 23,000 square-foot facility now open in…
Patients with cancer whose immune systems are being supported or rebuilt by bone marrow transplantation should begin receiving vaccines for protection against SARS-CoV-2 three months post-transplant, according to a large, prospective, observational study led collaboratively by the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, the Blood & Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. The research, involving…
Biologists often take advantage of the sheer multiplicity of life in order to make discoveries—microbiologists cultivate bacteria by the billions, cancer biologists can passage their immortalized cell lines ad infinitum, and biochemists can modify and express arbitrarily large amounts of protein at will. But what if you want to study a decidedly rarer biological entity, one which is present in…