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.
Tenfold boost in ability to pinpoint proteins in cancer cells
March 19, 2013
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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.
Remote clouds responsible for climate models’ glitch in tropical rainfall
One of the most persistent biases in global climate models is due to poor simulation of cloud cover thousands of miles to the south.
Spring move-in slated for new UW Medicine South Lake Union research building
March 8, 2013
Occupying the seven-story facility will be labs for kidney research, vision sciences, immunology, rheumatology, and infectious disease investigations.
Tracking sediments’ fate in largest-ever dam removal
March 7, 2013
Any day now, the world’s largest dam-removal project will release a century’s worth of sediment . For geologists, it’s a unique opportunity to study natural and engineered river systems.
UW nautilus expedition may have spied new species
March 6, 2013
A University of Washington research team has captured color photographs of what could be a previously undocumented species of chambered nautilus, a cephalopod mollusk often classified as a “living fossil,” in the waters off American Samoa in the South Pacific. “This is certainly a new taxon, but we are not sure if it is a…
United States lags behind many developed countries on key health measures
March 4, 2013
A public symposium on the Global Burden of Diseases study will be held on campus Monday, March 11.
‘True grit’ erodes assumptions about evolution
New work in Argentina where scientists had previously thought Earth’s first grasslands emerged 38 million years ago, shows the area at the time covered with tropical forests rich with palms, bamboos and gingers. Grit and volcanic ash in those forests could have caused the evolution of teeth in horse-like animals that scientists mistakenly thought were adaptations in response to emerging grasslands.
Changes in cloud distribution explain some weather patterns
February 28, 2013
Regional cloud changes may be as important for climate change as the overall amount of cloud cover.
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