Local News Fred Hutch at ASCO: New Insights on Financial Toxicity, Combination Therapies for Cancer and the Need for Targeted Breast Cancer Therapies in UgandaFred Hutch | June 1, 2023At the 2023 American Society for Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting—to be held June 2-6 in Chicago,…sciencecityJune 1, 2023 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Young Investigator AwardsUW Medicine | June 1, 2023First awarded in 1984, the Young Investigator Award provides research funding to promising young physicians…sciencecityJune 1, 2023 Read More
Local News BBI Faculty Profile: Dr. Kimberly AldingerBrotman Baty Institute | June 1, 2023BBI Member Dr. Kimberly Aldinger, assistant professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Genetic Medicine…sciencecityJune 1, 2023 Read More
Local News Senator Murray Tours Allen Institute, Vows to Continue Championing US and WA Leadership in Biomedical ResearchUS Senator Patty Murray | June 1, 2023U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, toured the Allen Institute—which…sciencecityJune 1, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week A Pooled Single-Cell Genetic Screen Identifies Regulatory Checkpoints in the Continuum of the Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal TransitionMcFaline-Figueroa, J., et al. | September 17, 2019EMT is fundamental to normal development and has been implicated in disease as a mechanism…sciencecitySeptember 17, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Conserved Cell Types with Divergent Features in Human Versus Mouse CortexHodge, R.D., et al. | September 12, 2019Using single nucleus transcriptomics, the authors showed that there are many different molecularly distinct cell…sciencecitySeptember 12, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week RIPK3 Activation Leads to Cytokine Synthesis that Continues after Loss of Cell Membrane IntegrityOrozco, S.L., et al. | September 10, 2019The authors have previously found that activation of "necroptosis" is accompanied by the production of…sciencecitySeptember 10, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Separate Polycomb Response Elements Control Chromatin State and Activation of the Vestigial GeneAhmad K., and Spens, A.E. | September 6, 2019Polycomb-based gene silencing is a central chromatin-based mechanism for shutting off genes during cell fate…sciencecitySeptember 6, 2019 Read More
Local News Wayfinder Biosciences Raises $3.5M to Program RNAWayfinder Biosciences via PR Newswire | November 2, 2022RNA design company Wayfinder Biosciences announced today that it raised a $3.5 million series seed round led…sciencecityNovember 2, 2022 Read More
Local News Jazz Drops $50M for Exclusive Rights to Zymeworks’ Bispecific HER2 HopefulBioSpace | October 31, 2022Jazz Pharmaceuticals and Zymeworks Inc entered into a $50 million licensing agreement over zanidatamab, Zymeworks’ bispecific antibody targeting HER2,…sciencecityOctober 31, 2022 Read More
Local News BBI Faculty Conversations: Dr. Lisa MavesBrotman Baty Institute | October 31, 2022Dr. Maves is an Associate Professor in the Center for Developmental and Regenerative Medicine at…sciencecityOctober 31, 2022 Read More
Local News Viral Shedding Ebbs over Time with HSV-1 Genital InfectionsUW Medicine | October 28, 2022People with a genital infection of the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which usually…sciencecityOctober 28, 2022 Read More
Interesting Articles How a Controversial US Drug Policy Could Be Harming Cancer Patients WorldwideNature | August 15, 2023The FDA’s accelerated-approval process was designed to help people access life-saving drugs. But gaps in…sciencecityAugust 15, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Familial Co-segregation and the Emerging Role of Long-Read Sequencing to Re-Classify Variants of Uncertain Significance in Inherited Retinal DiseasesGupta, P., et al. | August 15, 2023Phasing genetic variants is essential in determining those that are potentially disease-causing. In autosomal recessive…pthomsonAugust 15, 2023 Read More
Local News PAN-TB Collaboration Announces the Start of a Phase 2 Clinical Trial to Evaluate Two Novel Tuberculosis Treatment RegimensBioSpace | August 14, 2023The Project to Accelerate New Treatments for Tuberculosis (PAN-TB) collaboration announced today the start of…pthomsonAugust 14, 2023 Read More