The latest news from the UW

The not-for-profit Northwest Kidney Centers (NKC) based in Seattle, WA, and California biotechnology joint venture Kirin-Amgen have announced an honorary gift to the University of Washington (UW) Division of Nephrology to establish the Joseph W.

Birds that hang out in large urban areas seem to have a marked advantage over their rural cousins — they are adaptable enough to survive in a much larger range of conditions.

Climate changes have jeopardized human health in the past, and are bound to do so again.

Yoky Matsuoka, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, has been named one of this year’s <A href="http://www.

The film and television series “M*A*S*H*” featured the song “Suicide is Painless,” but new research refutes that idea and indicates that being victimized because of sexual orientation is a chief risk factor for suicidal behavior among gay, lesbian and bisexual college students.

A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught off Whidbey Island in Washington state is the only completely albino fish ever seen by both the curator of the University of Washington’s 7.

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Just as Minneapolis now finds itself in the middle of a national debate on bridge safety, so the Puget Sound area was some 70 years ago.

The University of Washington Institute of Translational Health Sciences is among 12 additional academic medical organizations nationwide to receive funding through the National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs).

For two generations of physicists, it has been a standard belief that the neutron, an electrically neutral elementary particle and a primary component of an atom, actually carries a positive charge at its center and an offsetting negative charge at its outer edge.

A remarkable change takes place in the brains of tiny songbirds every year, and some day the mechanism controlling that change may help researchers develop treatments for age-related degenerative diseases of the brain such as Parkinson’s and dementia.

From the fall of the Tower of Babel to the Esperanto global language movement, many humans have dreamed of sharing a common tongue.

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David Kopay, a University of Washington alumnus who was the first American professional team athlete to come out as gay, has pledged $1 million to the UW’s Q Center, whose mission is to create an inclusive and celebratory environment for people of all sexual orientations.

The University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have been awarded a four-year $4.

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The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), one of the National Institutes of Health, has funded a new research program at the University of Washington focused on the study of the basic biology of human embryonic stem cells.

Using new software developed to investigate how the brains of dyslexic children are organized, University of Washington researchers have found that key areas for language and working memory involved in reading are connected differently in dyslexics than in children who are good readers and spellers.

Neighborhood property values predict local obesity rates better than education or incomes, according to a study from the University of Washington being published online this week by the journal Social Science and Medicine.

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Washington State now has the fourth lowest child poverty rate in the nation, tied with Hawaii.

When human heart muscle cells derived from embryonic stem cells are implanted into a rat after a heart attack, they can help rebuild the animal’s heart muscle and improve function of the organ, scientists report in the September issue of Nature Biotechnology.

The University of Washington is showing a free, live broadcast of Washington National Opera’s edgy new production of Puccini’s La Boheme at 11 a.

This morning’s announcement by the Joint Oceanographic Institutions concerning a $97.

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