Publications of the Week Activated PIK3CD Drives Innate B Cell Expansion yet Limits B Cell-Intrinsic Immune Responses Wray-Dutra, M.N., et al. | September 24, 2018 Activated PI3K-delta syndrome (APDS) is an immunodeficiency caused by gain-of-function mutations in PIK3CD. This disease…sciencecitySeptember 24, 2018 Read More
Local News New Diagnostic Test for Leprosy Being Developed Infectious Disease Research Institute | September 24, 2018 Before an infectious disease can be treated, it must be detected. Key attributes of successful…sciencecitySeptember 24, 2018 Read More
Local News How Chromosomes Find a Happy Medium Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | September 21, 2018 Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have worked out the molecular underpinnings of how…sciencecitySeptember 21, 2018 Read More
Local News Fighting for Their Lives: Seattle Children’s Immunotherapy Journey Seattle Children's Hospital | September 21, 2018 At Seattle Children’s, many children and young adults with cancer are finding hope in T-cell immunotherapy –…sciencecitySeptember 21, 2018 Read More
Local News Seattle Skyline Turns Blue This Week to Celebrate Allen Institute’s 15th Birthday Geek Wire | September 20, 2018 If you see a lot of blue lights around Seattle landmarks this week, it’s not…sciencecitySeptember 20, 2018 Read More
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