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🦟 While the majority of the world just wants to swat mosquitoes, 3 UW researchers—Drs. Andrea Durant, Willem Laursen, and Jeffrey Riffell—find mosquitoes fascinating.
They told UW News what it’s like to study mosquitoes and why understanding these creatures is so critical: https://bit.ly/3SiPms4
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💸 Vedana Therapeutics, a Seattle-based startup aiming to prevent migraine attacks, emerged from stealth Wednesday with $46 million and a leadership team of heavy-hitters in cutting-edge #MigraineTreatment.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3SkKDGe
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Dr. Nancy Davidson at @fredhutch.org is the recipient of the David Karnofsky Science of Oncology Award from the American Society for Clinical Oncology.
🎉 Congratulations Dr. Davidson! https://bit.ly/4gnwhPj
The Bomsztyk lab at @uwmedicine.bsky.social has invented several high-throughput research tools and robotic workflows that allow scientists to process large numbers of tissue samples quickly and consistently.
Learn about their three new patents: https://bit.ly/4vbdNpG
🧋 A new treatment for #ChronicKidneyDisease looks a lot like a trip to a boba shop!
@uwnews.uw.edu researchers have created tiny ingestible gel beads similar to the tapioca pearls in bubble tea, but loaded with bacteria designed to intercept harmful toxins: https://bit.ly/3Sw9ln4
Researchers at @brotmanbaty.bsky.social & @uwmnewsroom.bsky.social developed plasmid single-molecule chromatin fiber sequencing to accurately map #chromatin architectures along individual, full-length transfected plasmid molecules.
🗞️ News: https://bit.ly/4g8oPYv
🔬 Abstract: https://bit.ly/4eLacsG
Why is a synthetic #HumanGenome is still worth building?
🧬 Dr. Sudarshan Pinglay from @brotmanbaty.bsky.social weighs in on the value of genome-scale projects and how to optimize the process in a new Nature Commentary: https://bit.ly/4vafZxX
Drs. Mark Bothwell and Yusha (Katie) Liu at @uwiscrm.bsky.social have received prestigious awards from the John H. Tietze Foundation Trust that will help fuel promising research underway in their labs.
🪩 Congratulations! https://bit.ly/4xcd2yp
The brain's electrical waves don't just travel. They spiral, and the spirals are coordinated across the whole brain.
Out today in @science.org, the study was led by @uw-nbio.bsky.social with @alleninstitute.org contributions.
🌀 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx1369
