Researchers at the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design today introduced RFD4-Proteina, an open, generative model ...

Five UW Medicine-affiliated physicians today were honored with appointments to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine. The academy announced 100 new members, recognizing individuals who have ...

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Like molecular “scissors,” these enzymes cut another protein at a precise, chosen point. The researchers specified a target ...

A mother’s influenza infection drives her placenta into full antiviral defense. That defense appears to come at a cost to the placenta’s health, according to a study of monkeys. The findings are newly ...

New research is shedding light on how influenza can affect pregnancy. A primate study found that flu infection during pregnancy launches a strong antiviral defense in the placenta, even when symptoms ...

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The National Institutes of Health announced Oct. 6 that three scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine will receive New Innovator awards. The funding supports their visionary and ...

Scientists have succeeded in reconstructing the family tree of cells in a developing mouse embryo. They recorded cells’ relationships, starting when the fertilized egg first split in two and ending ...

Dogs with a form of dementia known as canine cognitive dysfunction, or CCD, have telltale patterns in their brain tissue that are strikingly similar to those in humans with Alzheimer’s disease, ...