Local News Secretive Startup Receptor Life Sciences Raises $7.5M for Therapies Based on ‘Plant Extracts’ Geek Wire | October 11, 2018 Secretive biotechnology company Receptor Life Sciences has raised a funding round totaling just over $7.5 million, according…sciencecityOctober 11, 2018 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Blood Researcher Receives NIH New Innovator Award Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine | October 11, 2018 The National Institutes of Health today announced that stem cell biologist Sergei Doulatov, assistant professor…sciencecityOctober 11, 2018 Read More
Local News New Effort Will Analyze Genes of Endangered Northwest Orcas Kiro7 News | October 10, 2018 A new scientific effort will sequence the genomes of critically endangered Pacific Northwest orcas to…sciencecityOctober 10, 2018 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Grad Student Andrea Lim Wins NCI Award to Study Cancer Metastasis Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center | October 10, 2018 Andrea Lim, a fifth-year molecular and cellular biology graduate student at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research…sciencecityOctober 10, 2018 Read More
Local News Turning Medical Hardship into an Opportunity to Help Others The Seattle Times | October 9, 2018 University of Washington junior Wade Washington was just 15 when he got a call that…sciencecityOctober 9, 2018 Read More
Local News Inflammatory Marker Tied to Kidney Decline in Healthy Adults UW Medicine | October 9, 2018 A large, multiethnic study of healthy individuals found that high blood levels of an inflammatory…sciencecityOctober 9, 2018 Read More
Local News UW Medicine Researchers Explore New Approaches to Treating Childhood Leukemia Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine | October 8, 2018 Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) is the most common type of childhood cancer, representing approximately 25%…sciencecityOctober 8, 2018 Read More
AwardsFeatured Awards Dr. Beverly Torok-Storb Wins Mentorship Award Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | October 8, 2018 Last week, Dr. Beverly Torok-Storb — or “Dr. Bev,” as she’s known to her students…sciencecityOctober 8, 2018 Read More
Publications of the Week IL-6: A Cytokine at the Crossroads of Autoimmunity Jones, B.E., et al. | October 8, 2018 IL-6 is implicated in the development and progression of autoimmune diseases in part by influencing…sciencecityOctober 8, 2018 Read More
Publications of the Week Transcriptional Fates of Human-Specific Segmental Duplications in Brain Dougherty, M.L., et al. | October 5, 2018 Despite the importance of duplicate genes for evolutionary adaptation, accurate gene annotation is often incomplete,…sciencecityOctober 5, 2018 Read More