Local News Drug Giant Merck Pays $300M to Acquire Seattle Biotech Company Immune Design GeekWire | February 25, 2019 Merck, one of the world’s largest drugmakers, agreed to buy Seattle-based biotechnology company Immune Design for $300 million in…sciencecityFebruary 25, 2019 Read More
Local News IDRI Partners with Afrigen Biologics and Biovac to Produce Tuberculosis Vaccine Infectious Disease Research Institute | February 25, 2019 In an effort to produce vaccines where they are needed most, IDRI (Infectious Disease Research…sciencecityFebruary 25, 2019 Read More
Local News 2 Million-Cell Experiment Traces How a Mammal Grows, Cell by Single Cell Allen Institute for Cell Science | February 22, 2019 The very early days of growth, long before we are born, are a time of…sciencecityFebruary 22, 2019 Read More
Local News Seattle Biotech Startup Good Therapeutics Raises $11M to Make Smart Cancer Therapies GeekWire | February 22, 2019 Good Therapeutics, a new Seattle biotech startup that aims to develop protein drugs that act…sciencecityFebruary 22, 2019 Read More
Interesting Articles Why Do Only Eight Percent Of Cancer Patients In The U.S. Participate In Clinical Trials? Forbes | February 21, 2019 Most cancer clinical trials don't meet their enrollment targets and it has been previously thought…sciencecityFebruary 21, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week An Antigenic Atlas of HIV-1 Escape from Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies Distinguishes Functional and Structural Epitopes Dingens, A.S., et al. | February 21, 2019 Anti-HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) have revealed vaccine targets on the virus’s envelope (Env) protein…sciencecityFebruary 21, 2019 Read More
Local News New VR Game Lets You Learn about Cells by Tossing Them Allen Institute for Cell Science | February 21, 2019 If you slip on a virtual reality headset to play the Allen Institute for Cell…sciencecityFebruary 21, 2019 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Dr. Harmit Malik Elected Fellow of American Academy of Microbiology Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | February 20, 2019 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center investigator Dr. Harmit Malikhas been elected a fellow of the American…sciencecityFebruary 20, 2019 Read More
Local News Allergic to Penicillin? Maybe Not. UW Medicine | February 20, 2019 According to a new study published recently in JAMA, many patients eschew using the safest antibiotic in…sciencecityFebruary 20, 2019 Read More
Local News All About the Human Microbiome Institute for Systems Biology | February 19, 2019 That is how ISB microbiome researcher Dr. Sean Gibbons kicked off a recent Facebook Live Q&A.…sciencecityFebruary 19, 2019 Read More