Interesting Articles NSF, NASA, NIST Would Get Funding Boosts under House Spending Bill Science Magazine | May 31, 2019 The National Science Foundation (NSF) would get a 7% budget increase, and NASA a 3.8%…sciencecityMay 31, 2019 Read More
Local News Special Delivery: Gold Nanoparticles Ship CRISPR Cargo Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | May 31, 2019 Forget UPS and FedEx: Tiny golden delivery trucks created at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center…sciencecityMay 31, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Glial Injury in Neurotoxicity after Pediatric CD19-Directed Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy Gust, J., et al. | May 31, 2019 Neurotoxicity remains an important and difficult to predict complication CAR T cell immunotherapy. About 40%…sciencecityMay 31, 2019 Read More
Local News Jay Shendure’s Cool Job Using Genome Science to Assess the Risk of Disease The Seattle Times | May 30, 2019 Meet Dr. Jay Shendure, a Seattle-based scientist and University of Washington professor. His team at…sciencecityMay 30, 2019 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Dr. Joseph Mougous Announced as Finalist of the Prestigious Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists Blavatnik Awards | May 30, 2019 The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences today announced Finalists of the 2019 Blavatnik National…sciencecityMay 30, 2019 Read More
Local News Legionnaires’ Bacterium Has a Secret Weapon — and a Potential Weakness Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | May 30, 2019 Researchers have discovered one way the bacterium that causes Legionnaires’ diseasesuccessfully lives in contaminated water supplies:…sciencecityMay 30, 2019 Read More
Uncategorized BRI to Receive Funding from $10 Million Autoimmunity Research Grant Benaroya Research Institute | May 30, 2019 Benaroya Research Institute is one of four organizations receiving funding from a new $10 million…sciencecityMay 30, 2019 Read More
Publications of the Week Salmonella Translocated Effectors Recruit OSBP1 to the Phagosome to Promote Vacuolar Membrane Integrity Kolodziejek, A.M., et al. | May 29, 2019 Intracellular Salmonella use a type III secretion system (TTSS) to translocate effector proteins across the…sciencecityMay 29, 2019 Read More
Local News Study Probes the Powering of Contractions in Heart Failure UW Medicine | May 29, 2019 Current treatments can slow progression of heart failure, but do not address the underlying issues,…sciencecityMay 29, 2019 Read More
Local News Researcher Wants to Unlock the Mysteries of Strabismus UW Medicine | May 29, 2019 Strabismus, also known as being cross-eyed or having a wandering eye, is one of the…sciencecityMay 29, 2019 Read More