Local News Water and Wastewater Disinfection Can Help Prevent the Spread of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria, but What about Their Genes? UW News | April 9, 2019 Each year at least 2 million Americans are infected with bacteria that cannot be treated…sciencecityApril 9, 2019 Read More
Local News Here’s Why Seattle Is the Country’s Top Emerging Life Sciences Market GeekWire | April 8, 2019 Seattle is the top emerging life sciences hub in the U.S., according to a recent report…sciencecityApril 8, 2019 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Bing Brunton Awarded $7.5 Million MURI Grant UW Department of Biology | April 8, 2019 The Department of Defense (DoD) announced $169 million in its long-running multidisciplinary university research initiative…sciencecityApril 8, 2019 Read More
Local News Could a Simple Blood Test Replace the Invasive Tissue Biopsy? Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | April 5, 2019 For years, the idea seemed as far-fetched as a fairy tale. Once upon a time,…sciencecityApril 5, 2019 Read More
Local News Scientists Prod Immune Cells to Attack Pancreatic Cancer UW Medicine | April 5, 2019 It's possible to prod immune cells to attack and kill pancreatic cancer cells, according to a…sciencecityApril 5, 2019 Read More
Local News Expert Panel Discusses 21st Century Health Care ahead of ISB’s Future of Health Symposium Institute for Systems Biology | April 5, 2019 In order to optimize our health, live into our 90s and effectively deal with chronic…sciencecityApril 5, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Logic-Gated ROR1 Chimeric Antigen Receptor Expression Rescues T Cell-Mediated Toxicity to Normal Tissues and Enables Selective Tumor Targeting Srivastava, S., et al. | April 5, 2019 Many potential targets for CAR-T cells in solid tumors are expressed in some normal tissues,…sciencecityApril 5, 2019 Read More
Local News After Researchers Struggle to Find Funding, UW Researcher Proposes New Funding System The Daily | April 4, 2019 When Ferric Fang, a laboratory medicine and microbiology professor at the UW was first breaking…sciencecityApril 4, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Old Cogs, New Tricks: The Evolution of Gene Expression in a Chromatin Context Talbert, P.B., et al. | April 4, 2019 Sophisticated gene-regulatory mechanisms probably evolved in prokaryotes billions of years before the emergence of modern…sciencecityApril 4, 2019 Read More
Local News Seattle Startup Rodeo Therapeutics Raises More Cash for Regenerative Medicine Treatments GeekWire | April 4, 2019 Seattle-based startup Rodeo Therapeuticsis raising more cash for its work on tissue repair and regeneration. The…sciencecityApril 4, 2019 Read More