Local News Malaria Vaccine Work Deploys Parasite-Fighting Cells to LiverUW Medicine | September 7, 2018After an infected mosquito bite, malaria parasites travel from the bite site to the liver. …sciencecitySeptember 7, 2018 Read More
Local News Using Gene Therapy to Build an Immune System in Newborns Without OneSeattle Children's Hospital | September 7, 2018Out of every 60,000 births, a baby arrives to face the world without a fully…sciencecitySeptember 7, 2018 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Dr. Marie Bleakley Named Gerdin Family Endowed Chair for Leukemia ResearchFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | September 6, 2018The phone call came in 2016 from a parent who was desperate to save her…sciencecitySeptember 6, 2018 Read More
Local News Decoding Your Immune System’s MemoriesFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | September 6, 2018You remember the last time you were laid up with the flu. The aches, the…sciencecitySeptember 6, 2018 Read More
Publications of the Week Cas9 Immunity Creates Challenges for CRISPR Gene Editing TherapiesCrudele, J.M., et al. | September 5, 2018Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9 is a genome-editing technology1,2 that utilizes archaeal and bacterial…sciencecitySeptember 5, 2018 Read More
Interesting Articles US Senate Passes Spending Bill Granting NIH $39.1 BillionThe Scientist | September 5, 2018The US Senate passed a spending bill last week (August 23) allotting $39.1 billion to…sciencecitySeptember 5, 2018 Read More
Local News DNA Accessibility, Gene Expression Jointly Profiled in 1,000s of CellsUW Medicine | September 4, 2018Scientists have now developed an assay that concurrently profiles both the epigenome and the transcriptome…sciencecitySeptember 4, 2018 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Anat Zimmer and Tomasz Wilmanski Receive Inaugural K. Carole Ellison FellowshipInstitute for Systems Biology | September 4, 2018The recently unveiled fellows program funds two young scientists researching bioinformatics. The inaugural fellows are…sciencecitySeptember 4, 2018 Read More
Publications of the Week Early Cellular Innate Immune Responses Drive Zika Viral Persistence and Tissue Tropism in Pigtail MacaquesO'Connor, M.A., et al. | September 3, 2018The immunological and virological events that contribute to the establishment of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection…sciencecitySeptember 3, 2018 Read More
Local News University of Washington Spin-Out Raising Cash for More Accurate DNA Sequencing TechnologyGeekWire | September 3, 2018TwinStrand Biosciences, a spin-out of the University of Washington, is raising cash to commercialize DNA…sciencecitySeptember 3, 2018 Read More