Local News Decoding Your Immune System’s Memories Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | September 6, 2018 You 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 Therapies Crudele, J.M., et al. | September 5, 2018 Clustered 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 Billion The Scientist | September 5, 2018 The 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 Cells UW Medicine | September 4, 2018 Scientists 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 Fellowship Institute for Systems Biology | September 4, 2018 The 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 Macaques O'Connor, M.A., et al. | September 3, 2018 The 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 Technology GeekWire | September 3, 2018 TwinStrand Biosciences, a spin-out of the University of Washington, is raising cash to commercialize DNA…sciencecitySeptember 3, 2018 Read More
Publications of the Week An Assay for De Novo Kinetochore Assembly Reveals a Key Role for the CENP-T Pathway in Budding Yeast Lang, J., et al. | August 31, 2018 Chromosome segregation depends on the kinetochore, the machine that establishes force-bearing attachments between DNA and…sciencecityAugust 31, 2018 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Dr. James Dai Receives $2.1M NCI Grant for Cancer Biomarker Research Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | August 30, 2018 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center biostatistician Dr. James Dairecently was awarded a $2.1 million grant from…sciencecityAugust 30, 2018 Read More
Local News Gene Testing of Nigerian Women Could Help Prevent Breast Cancer UW Medicine | August 30, 2018 The first study of its kind applying modern genomics technology to DNA contributed by Sub-Saharan…sciencecityAugust 30, 2018 Read More