Local News Ablation More Effective Than Meds for Heart-Rhythm Ailment UW Medicine | March 22, 2019 Using catheter ablation instead of standard drug therapy to treat the heart rhythm abnormality known…sciencecityMarch 22, 2019 Read More
Local News Scientists Are Creating Virtual Simulations of the Brain to Better Understand the Real Thing Allen Institute | March 21, 2019 When asked to describe what he works on, computational neuroscientist Stefan Mihalas, Ph.D., covers one…sciencecityMarch 21, 2019 Read More
Local News HIV Protection for Infants May Come From Breastfeeding and the Gut Seattle Children's Hospital | March 21, 2019 Every year, over 1.2 million people continue to be infected by HIV. Of these, about…sciencecityMarch 21, 2019 Read More
Local News Wrapped Heart Devices Cut Infection in Implanted Patients UW Medicine | March 21, 2019 Among the 1.7 million patients implanted globally every year with heart defibrillators and pacemakers, postoperative infections are…sciencecityMarch 21, 2019 Read More
Local News Research Spotlight: Dr. Jerry Nepom Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason | March 21, 2019 Dr. Gerald (Jerry) Nepom, who founded BRI’s Diabetes Research Program in the 1980’s, and who…sciencecityMarch 21, 2019 Read More
Local News New Method to Assess Platelet Health Could Help ER Doctors UW News | March 20, 2019 Emergency room doctors often have only a few minutes to determine which patients are in…sciencecityMarch 20, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Distinct Progenitor Populations Mediate Regeneration in the Zebrafish Lateral Line Thomas, E.D. and Raible, D.W. | March 20, 2019 Mechanosensory hair cells of the zebrafish lateral line regenerate rapidly following damage. These renewed hair…sciencecityMarch 20, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Genomic and Molecular Characterization of Preterm Birth Knijnenburg, T.A., et al. | March 19, 2019 Preterm birth (PTB) complications are the leading cause of long-term morbidity and mortality in children.…sciencecityMarch 19, 2019 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Dr. Heather Wright Receives NIH Training Fellowship to Study Pancreatic Cancer Metastasis Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | March 19, 2019 Dr. Heather J. Wright, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Hingorani Lab at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research…sciencecityMarch 19, 2019 Read More
Local News Vikram Jandhyala, UW Innovation Leader and Key Figure in Seattle Tech, Dies at Age 47 GeekWire | March 18, 2019 Vikram Jandhyala, the University of Washington’s vice provost for innovation and a key link between…sciencecityMarch 18, 2019 Read More