Just in time for new year’s resolutions, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is releasing a free app that employs an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot to help people stop smoking. Through an… Read More
—T-Mobile announced Thursday that IBM CFO James Kavanaugh joined its board of directors. Kavanaugh joined IBM nearly three decades ago and became CFO in 2018. Prior to IBM, Kavanaugh was… Read More
The phrase “burnout” has taken on new meaning during the pandemic. Forty percent of people in 2020 said the pandemic had affected their mental health, according to data from the… Read More
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center on Wednesday announced an enormous philanthropic gift of $710.5 million from Jackie and Mike Bezos, the parents of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, pledged on behalf of… Read More
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is leveraging Amazon’s machine learning expertise to collaborate on an early-stage clinical trial testing an anti-cancer vaccine in patients with certain types of breast cancer or… Read More
It was a week of accolades, partnerships and new programs in the Pacific Northwest life sciences scene. University of Washington geneticist Evan Eichler landed on Time magazine’s list of “100… Read More
Cancer research in the Seattle region will become more integrated with area clinics and hospitals under a new effort announced Friday. “It’s the future of cancer care and cancer research,”… Read More
Philip Greenberg has been trying to stop cancer for decades. With Affini-T Therapeutics, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center investigator may finally have his chance. The company announced $175 million… Read More
New funding: Affini-T Therapeutics, a cell therapy company spun out of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center that aims to treat solid tumors, raised $175 million in initial financing. Fred Hutch… Read More
In February, a New York woman made headlines as the third person to apparently be completely cured of HIV. She had received an umbilical cord blood transplant for leukemia, an… Read More
Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has recruited a new vice president and chief data officer: biostatistician and data science educator Jeffrey Leek. Leek will start in the newly formed… Read More
As the values of Bitcoin and Ether are hovering near record highs, America’s nonprofits are in the peak months of their annual fundraising. Some charitable organizations are hoping to bring… Read More
In the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as we desperately flailed for reliable information to comprehend what had previously been largely unimaginable, Seattle’s Trevor Bedford was a rare source… Read More
Experimental compounds that alter RNA boost the effectiveness of immunotherapy drugs against cancer cells and could potentially extend their use to more patients, suggests a study in mice from the… Read More
With COVID-19 vaccines still in limited supply and case counts threatening to resurge, there is a debate over the benefits of giving more people their first shot and waiting a… Read More
To help people live, Mark Roth scrutinizes those who’ve come frighteningly close to dying. People who have been lost in the frozen wilderness in a Mount Rainier whiteout or stowed… Read More
New funding: Ozette, a biotech company that last year spun out of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and was incubated at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), has… Read More
New spinout: Boston-based biotech startup Ensoma launched Thursday and announced a $70 million Series A funding round. The company is built on technology developed over two decades by Seattle researchers… Read More
Let’s start with the good news. The number of new COVID-19 cases in the greater Seattle area, Washington state and the national level have all been declining since early January,… Read More
In the nearly four decades since HIV was discovered, only two people have been cured of the virus that has killed millions. Researchers in Seattle are hoping to boost that… Read More
In a final parting shot, 2020 delivered this bit of late-breaking bad news: A new variant of COVID-19 has emerged that appears more contagious and last week was confirmed in… Read More
As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday evening approved the first COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, experts are reassuring the public of its safety. The message is: while… Read More
A collaboration to share data between top Pacific Northwest cancer research groups has announced its first three projects, focused on genetic analysis for monitoring breast cancer; interactions between gut bacteria… Read More
Since it was revealed in early October, details about President Trump’s COVID-19 infection have been in short supply, including the likely source of his exposure and when he was tested.… Read More
Looking for a little levity in a world where science is tackling its fair share of tough problems, doctors and staff at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center held a… 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
Nicole Magaki doesn’t just want to be a doctor. She wants to help doctors help more people. A 17-year-old from Des Moines, Wash., Nicole has long had an interest in… Read More
An app developed by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is nearly four times more effective at helping smokers quit than the average success rate for those trying to kick… Read More
The age of molecular-scale computing is entering a new era, thanks to the development of a system that uses synthetic proteins and Boolean logic to identify cancer cells. The proteins… Read More