Local News High-Tech Seattle Cancer Center Wins Reprieve as Lenders Take $135M Loss The Seattle Times | December 4, 2018 SCCA Proton Therapy Center debuted 5 years ago as an unmatched advanced cancer-treatment facility in…sciencecityDecember 4, 2018 Read More
Local News Spotlight on James Yurkovich, ISB Translational Research Fellow Institute for Systems Biology | December 4, 2018 Dr. James Yurkovich joined ISB this summer as a Translational Research Fellow. The three-year Translational Research Fellows…sciencecityDecember 4, 2018 Read More
Publications of the Week Structural Plasticity of D3-D14 Ubiquitin Ligase in Strigolactone Signalling Shabek, N., et al. | December 3, 2018 One major focus of our research is to understand the role of selective protein destruction…sciencecityDecember 3, 2018 Read More
Local News Immune Booster May Awaken Body’s Defenses against Skin Cancer Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | December 3, 2018 At first, Paul Glusman thought his hernia had re-opened. Doctors who assessed the growing lump…sciencecityDecember 3, 2018 Read More
Interesting Articles Ethical Concerns Surround Gene-Edited Babies UW Medicine | December 3, 2018 Earlier this week, He Jiankui, a scientist in China, announced he had genetically edited two human embryos,…sciencecityDecember 3, 2018 Read More
Publications of the Week Gene Inversion Potentiates Bacterial Evolvability and Virulence Merrikh, C.N., et al. | November 30, 2018 The research in Houra Merrikh’s lab is focused on bacterial DNA replication, repair, mutagenesis, and…sciencecityNovember 30, 2018 Read More
Local News Stem Cells to the Rescue UW Medicine Magazine | November 30, 2018 Heart failure is the world’s leading cause of death, most of it related to the…sciencecityNovember 30, 2018 Read More
Local News 1st Trial Launches to Test Male Contraceptive Gel’s Efficacy UW Medicine | November 30, 2018 Three U.S. sites are enrolling couples in the first clinical trial to test the safety and…sciencecityNovember 30, 2018 Read More
Local News Threatened Tropical Coral Reefs Form Complex, Ancient Associations with Bacteria, Researchers Say UW News | November 29, 2018 When it comes to the well-being of coral reefs, for many years scientists focused on bleaching,…sciencecityNovember 29, 2018 Read More
Local News FDA Approves Unique, DNA-Targeting Cancer Drug, Potentially Changing Care for Thousands GeekWire | November 29, 2018 Today, Connor Pearcy is an average 7-year-old boy. He loves dinosaurs, Pokemon and tetherball —…sciencecityNovember 29, 2018 Read More