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Institute for Protein Design wins $45M in funding from TED’s Audacious Project

The era of engineering proteins for medical applications just got a lot closer, thanks to a five-year, $45 million grant… Read More

Univ. of Washington Medicine exposes information of nearly 1 million patients due to database error

A database error late last year exposed the personal information of nearly a million patients, University of Washington Medicine said… Read More

Got the flu? Seattle wants to swab your nose for a massive health data project

Calling all feverish, coughing, achy Seattleites: Your germs could help prevent the next big pandemic. At least, that’s the hope… Read More

Stem cells help fix damaged hearts in monkeys; human testing is on the way

Medical researchers have restored the function of damaged hearts in macaque monkeys, using heart muscle cells derived from human embryonic… Read More

How a robotic system that grows human organoids can help save real live humans

Good news, everybody: Robots can now create human mini-organs from stem cells. What could possibly go wrong? The method may… Read More

UW researchers’ ‘kidney on a chip’ will be prepped for space station experiment

A stack of card-sized gizmos that test the effects of drugs, toxins and weightlessness on human kidney cells is due… Read More

Seattle researchers join forces to study brain injury, aging and dementia

Scientists from Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science, the University of Washington and Group Health Research Institute have put together… Read More

We need a startup for that: Healthcare companies pitch their problems to entrepreneurs

Laurent Rotival sees two problems facing the healthcare industry: baby boomers and millennials. Baby boomers are so numerous they’re putting pressure on healthcare systems… Read More