Don’t worry, this article will be short enough to not create a time-consuming task for readers looking to absorb its key points. Researchers don’t always have that luxury when they’re… Read More
Newly released renderings show a building planned for the west campus of the University of Washington in Seattle that will be home to research centers in clean energy, medical science… Read More
The University of Washington and Washington State University are adding artificial intelligence research institutes thanks to $40 million in funding from the National Science Foundation. UW and WSU will house… Read More
Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is opening a new facility dedicated to testing treatments for people who have tested positive for COVID-19. The COVID-19 Clinical Research Center, or CCRC… Read More
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered life as we know it in Seattle, and a team from the University of Washington is conducting research using images from around the city to… Read More
The University of Washington is launching a new Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences (CREATE) and Microsoft is helping to fund the effort with a $2.5 million… Read More
Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has laid off 14 people as part of a broader restructuring of its internal data science initiatives, GeekWire has learned. The move, announced internally… Read More
Researchers and physicians at the University of Washington in Seattle are treating patients diagnosed with COVID-19 using a drug best known as a therapy for malaria, part of a broader… Read More
Shyam Gollakota has come a long way since his first day as a university undergraduate. “I didn’t know how to program. In fact, I didn’t even know how to type,”… Read More
For the third year in a row, the University of Washington has won the title of the world’s most innovative public university, according to an annual ranking by Reuters and… Read More
Alexa could soon be the ultimate baby monitor. Researchers at the University of Washington created a speaker system that is capable of monitoring the breathing and movement of sleeping children.… Read More
Maryn Sage remembers the words she heard on the day she learned that her 16-year-old son, Jedd Feliciano, was cancer-free. “His marrow’s clean,” the doctor told her over the phone,… Read More
Human doctors once again fell short of artificial intelligence in a test to accurately diagnose breast cancer, adding yet more evidence that AI-aided diagnostics may soon be commonplace. Researchers at… Read More
The question of why immunotherapy eradicates cancer in some people while having little effect on the majority of patients has vexed scientists since the introduction of the treatment. Now, researchers… Read More
Microsoft is teaming up with leading medical research organizations to create a shared network of research data in the Pacific Northwest. Dubbed the Cascadia Data Discovery Initiative (CDDI), the goal… Read More
Kristin Anderson has already fought cancer in more ways than one. She’s a cancer survivor whose battle with breast cancer started when she was just 28 years old and pursuing… Read More
For the past three years, Joseph Williams has been advising Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on tech policy. In that time he saw the number of spots for computer science students… Read More
Biotech giant Amgen is putting up the money to fund three research projects in partnership with the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design (IPD). Amgen declined to disclose the… Read More
For years, giant holes in Antarctic sea ice have confounded scientists. But this week researchers from the University of Washington announced a breakthrough. The mysterious phenomenon: Giant holes in the… Read More
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has a historic new signpost on Seattle’s Lake Union. The institution has started adding its name on the Lake Union Steam Plant’s iconic smokestacks… Read More
One of the most basic biological dramas is now available in interactive 3D. Researchers at the Allen Institute for Cell Science today unveiled a project that offers a near-complete view… Read More
Some viruses, no matter how hard we try, remain resistant to vaccines. Now, researchers are using a different method, gene editing, as a way to make cells immune to mankind’s… Read More
What if deep learning models could detect early-stage cancer more accurately than a veteran radiologist? Google is showing that day might be close, based on the results of a study… Read More
Researchers at the University of Washington have created a molecule that aims to stop the formation of protein clusters thought to be a prime contributor to Alzheimer’s disease. In a… Read More
The richest people in the world are putting some of their fortunes toward finding a better way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. Bill Gates and Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos are backing… Read More
The White House’s $4.7 trillion spending plan for fiscal year 2020 aims to give a boost to the Space Force, but would dial down work on NASA’s Space Launch System,… Read More
Microsoft data scientists and researchers at Seattle Children’s Hospital have teamed up to give a high-resolution picture of the link between unexplained death in newborns and smoking. In a paper… Read More
It takes three weeks for a mouse to develop from a fertilized egg into a newborn. In that time, there are four days that arguably matter more than all the… Read More
Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center led by Dr. Cyrus Ghajar recently uncovered promising new science in the battle against metastatic breast cancer. Their findings, published today in… Read More
Although Steve Pergam grew up with parents who were both physicians, he was never pushed to be a doctor as a kid growing up in Omaha, Neb. He credits a… Read More
