UW-developed screening for debilitating, often-fatal genetic conditions has drawn interest from companies that could use it in tests distributed nationally and around the world.
Infant tests for debilitating diseases set for mainstream
April 1, 2013
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UW Medicine launches multi-media health and wellness initiative April 1
In partnership with Fisher Communications, UW Medicine Health will provide information on healthy living and on the latest treatments and medical breakthroughs
Head-on collisions between DNA-code reading machineries accelerate gene evolution
March 29, 2013
Bacteria speed up their evolution by positioning specific genes along the route of expected traffic jams in DNA encoding. Collisions can result in mutations.
Volunteers use historic U.S. ship logbooks to uncover Arctic climate data
March 28, 2013
A volunteer project enlists citizen scientists to transcribe climate observations buried in historic logbooks of U.S. ships that spent time in the Arctic.
Gene therapy may aid failing hearts
March 26, 2013
Scientists come closer to boosting heart muscle by powering its contractile machinery.
2013 Canada Gairdner Global Health Award goes to King Holmes for STD work
March 20, 2013
Holmes was honored for his groundbreaking work on sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, chlamydia, genital herpes, gonorrhea and human papilloma virus.
Some Alaskan trout use flexible guts for the ultimate binge diet
The stomach and intestines of certain Dolly Varden trout double to quadruple in size during month-long, salmon-egg-eating binges in Alaska each August. It’s the first time researchers have documented such fish gut flexibility in the wild.
Tenfold boost in ability to pinpoint proteins in cancer cells
March 19, 2013
New research offers a more comprehensive way to analyze a cell’s unique behavior, revealing patterns that could indicate why a cell will or won’t become cancerous.
UW students create, harvest fog in campus ‘hoop house’
March 18, 2013
University of Washington students have been testing low-cost materials capable of harvesting water from fog.
Long-term relationships, access to data drive sustainability institutions’ success
March 11, 2013
Successful sustainability initiatives need to be grounded in long-standing relationships among scientists, local communities and decision-makers, UW’s Lisa Graumlich told a session on sustainability science at AAAS.
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