Cancer trial: Expectation-setting gives way to hope
September 27, 2017 | Categories: Research |Beginning four years ago, 15 women with incurable (metastatic triple-negative) breast cancer were enrolled in a unique clinical trial. It explored one concept of “precision medicine” – the suggestion that the brain power of multiple medical experts and the collection of an immense volume of data about each woman’s condition would yield the most personalized, customized care possible. Read More
Move over Gucci; researchers create designer stem cells
September 1, 2017 | Categories: Research |UW Medicine researchers recently lead a successful effort to create “designer” stem cells that might lead to advances in cancer and aging, they say. In a paper published in the journal PNAS, the scientists showed for the first time that a computer-generated protein can be inserted into stem cells to change their epigenetic memory, whose role is to ensure that a cell’s DNA sequence remains intact as it divides. Read More
Previously Unappreciated Function of αE-catenin Uncovered by Cirulli and Crisa Labs
August 8, 2017 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |
Crisa Lab Uncovers Novel Function of a Subset of Macrophages that Foster Pancreatic Islet Cell Growth
August 3, 2017 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized |
Scientists regenerate retinal cells in mice
July 26, 2017 | Categories: Research |Scientists have successfully regenerated cells in the retina of adult mice at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. Their results raise the hope that someday it may […] Read More
Gene replacement therapy that works in dogs to be tested in children
May 18, 2017 | Categories: Research |SEATTLE – KIRO 7 has learned of a revolutionary treatment, here in Seattle, that has saved the lives of dogs and is just months away from being tested in children. In […] Read More
Pioneering work on stem-cell therapies at UW deserves state support
April 9, 2017 | Categories: Research |IF you have a heart attack, hopefully you’ll survive. But your body will be forever changed. The world’s best doctors can’t undo the damage; instead, drugs and devices will help […] Read More
Gene therapy treats muscle-wasting disease in dogs
February 15, 2017 | Categories: Research |Work on gene therapy is showing significant progress for restoring muscle strength and prolonging lives in dogs with a previously incurable, inherited neuromuscular disease. UW Medicine Institute for Stem Cell […] Read More
Restoring sight: Can the retina be regenerated?
August 30, 2016 | Categories: Research |July 26, 2017 A UW Medicine lab sees a future where lost retinal cells might be revived Break a bone, it will heal. Fry a retinal cell? It’s gone forever. […] Read More
UW Medicine researchers seek a way to regenerate digits
August 12, 2016 | Categories: Research |UW Medicine researchers seek a way to regenerate digits A 7-year-old girl sticks her finger through the spinning spokes of her brother’s bike. The tip gets torn off. She soon […] Read More