Local News A Prototype of How to Fight the Next Pandemic: A Vaccine Without the Shot The Washington Post | September 20, 2018 When the next deadly pandemic flu hits, the first challenge will be to develop a vaccine. But…sciencecitySeptember 20, 2018 Read More
Publications of the Week Receptive Field Center-Surround Interactions Mediate Context-Dependent Spatial Contrast Encoding in the Retina Turner, M.H., et al. | September 20, 2018 Antagonistic receptive field surrounds are a near-universal property of early sensory processing. A key assumption…sciencecitySeptember 20, 2018 Read More
Local News Fluorescence Activating Protein Made from Scratch for First Time UW Medicine | September 20, 2018 For the first time, scientists have created, entirely from scratch, a protein capable of binding to…sciencecitySeptember 20, 2018 Read More
Spotlight Dr. Lai Hong Wong Talks Cytochrome P450s and Adverse Drug Reactions Science in Seattle | September 19, 2018 Dr. Lai Hong Wong is a senior research fellow working in the laboratory of Prof.…sciencecitySeptember 19, 2018 Read More
Local News Pinpointing the Connectino between Cancer and Autoimmune Disease Benaroya Research Institute | September 19, 2018 It might seem unlikely for scientists at Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI), a…sciencecitySeptember 19, 2018 Read More
Interesting Articles Documentary Puts Lens on the Open-Access Movement Upending Scientific Publishing Science Magazine | September 19, 2018 Jason Schmitt was working at Atlantic Records when the online site Napster disrupted the music…sciencecitySeptember 19, 2018 Read More
Publications of the Week Chemical Cross-Linking with Mass Spectrometry: A Tool for Systems Structural Biology Chavez, J.D. and Bruce, J.E. | September 18, 2018 Biological processes supporting life are orchestrated by a highly dynamic array of protein structures and…sciencecitySeptember 18, 2018 Read More
Local News New ‘Scientific Wellness’ Strategy Could Cut Chronic Illnesses and Save Money The Irish Times | September 18, 2018 “Scientific wellness” should be widely adopted as a health strategy to avoid chronic illnesses and…sciencecitySeptember 18, 2018 Read More
Local News New Life Sciences Building Is a Nexus for Modern-Age Teaching and Research UW Department of Biology | September 17, 2018 UW Biology today opened the doors to a new Life Sciences Building that will transform…sciencecitySeptember 17, 2018 Read More
Local News OncoResponse Raises $40M to Start Clinical Trials of Antibody-Based Cancer Immunotherapies Geek Wire | September 17, 2018 OncoResponse, a Seattle biotech company creating antibody-based treatments for cancer, has raised a $40 million…sciencecitySeptember 17, 2018 Read More