Dr. Leroy Hood from @isbscience.org is a co-author on a new perspective piece published in Cell Systems.
Here, researchers discuss shifting medicine from reactive to proactive by picking up on early disease signals sooner.
🧐 Abstract: https://bit.ly/4sv49Nc
🧬 Big news in #lymphoma research!
A 15-year follow-up of clinical trial patients suggests that follicular lymphoma — traditionally considered incurable — may actually be curable with standard chemo-immunotherapy.
Learn more from Dr. Mazyar Shadman at @fredhutch.org: https://bit.ly/47piAtO
Registration is open for the Cascadia Advanced Genomic Technologies Meeting! ⚙️🧫
This growing annual conference brings together leading minds in synthetic biology across Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
🗓️ May 14-15
📍 Seattle, WA
🎟️ Register: https://bit.ly/4aidUa4
Deadlines for our summer high school programs are fast approaching! Apply now: https://linktr.ee/fredhutch
#summerinternships #codingforcancer #researchopportunities #labshadow #scienceeducation
🦷 In an important step towards regenerative dentistry, Anjali Patni and the Ruohola-Baker lab at UW show that a soluble AI-designed ligand can be used to mature ameloblasts capable of secreting enamel.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3OQwrD9
🎊 @fredhutch.org has announced the inaugural the Bus Family Endowed Chair. Congratulations to Dr. Holly Harris, an Associate Professor in the Public Health Sciences Division!
This position will support her research in #GynecologicOncology and #BreastCancer: https://bit.ly/47ofA0P
A new paper from @uwmedicine.bsky.social shows how #StemCells generate multiple cell types crucial for kidney function and how to kickstart this process inside a patient’s kidney.
Check out the work from Dr. Thomas Vincent and the Freedman lab: https://bit.ly/4ratuuP
🔬 Seattle's science community is buzzing and you should be part of it!
Stay in the loop with local science events, cutting-edge research highlights, community stories, and more.
👉 Subscribe now: https://bit.ly/4l2UQkY
In a new Nature study, researchers from the @alleninstitute.org and their collaborators found that pain-sensing nerves in the gut, known as TRPV1⁺ neurons, help regulate #TuftCells.
🔬 Learn more about their work and see their incredible images: https://bit.ly/4rIafK2
👀 Never-before-seen!
See the new 3D reconstructions of human liver tissue on the cellular level that were created by the Stevens lab at @uwmedicine.bsky.social. They capture the spatial #microstructure of multiple lobes of this multitasking organ: https://bit.ly/4tWNKlZ
Applications for our Next Generation Leaders program are open!
For 3 years, accepted early career scientists will join a supportive network and contribute to our research initiatives.
Apply by Mar. 31: https://bit.ly/3OjzdRa
📸 Photo by NGL Alum @bjmarlin.bsky.social
🎧 Put this podcast into your queue!
Season 2 of the Variants and Us (VUS) Podcast by the @varianteffect.bsky.social is live. Get the scoop on MAVEs and blood diseases in episodes 1 and 2: https://bit.ly/4rzY9Cv
#SciencePodcast
Loneliness doesn’t just hurt the heart. It also changes the brain.
Grab your friends and join us on March 19 for a virtual discussion with @dr-brein.bsky.social, neuroscientist and author of "Why Brains Need Friends."
🔗 https://alleninstitute.org/events/why-brains-need-friends/
“In general, there’s an increase in the use of transplants because of the availability of donors, but at the same time we still lag behind in terms of, ‘How do we get equal access to everyone?’” Fred Hutch's Dr. Albert Yeh on key themes from #Tandem26: https://bit.ly/4aSk7d1
New research from Drs. Sean Gibbons and Nick Quinn-Bohmann at @isbscience.org show that computer models of gut metabolism can predict whether probiotics will successfully establish in an individual’s microbiome: https://bit.ly/40vWnGB
#PersonalizedMedicine
Five UW researchers have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation!
Among them is Dr. @willemlaursen.bsky.social, whose research is focused on understanding how animals detect and respond to sensory cues in their environment: https://bit.ly/4c5SJKS
Hey #BPS2026, meet your new BFF - BioFile Finder!
On Sunday at 1:30-3:30pm, we'll be showing how this open-use web application can help you save time and heartache when managing datasets.
🔎 Explore BFF now: https://bff.allencell.org/
Crystal Chhan and the McGuire lab at @fredhutch.org reached a crucial milestone in blocking Epstein Barr virus (#EBV) in mice. 🐭
Their work with EBV also validated an innovative a new approach for discovering protective antibodies against other pathogens: https://bit.ly/4qI8riI
🎇 @isbscience.org Professor Dr. Nitin Baliga has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology 2026 Fellowship Class.
This highly selective honor recognizes exceptional scientific achievement and leadership in the microbial sciences. Congratulations! https://bit.ly/4kLnHdB
The first ISCRM–MolES Scientific Exchange brought UW researchers together to explore many cutting-edge topics.
Collaboration is at the heart of science and this one in particular could help reshape #RegenerativeMedicine and disease research: https://bit.ly/4qF83S8
🎆 In January 2026, the first #Treg-based therapy for T1D entered clinical trials. The Buckner lab at @benaroyaresearch.bsky.social is already looking forwards.
“My hope is that we can rapidly invest in making this drug [available] to everyone who needs it,” Dr. Buckner said: https://bit.ly/407vWqE
Why repeat old experiments?
⌛ Scientists at UW are repeating decades-old studies to track how organisms actually change over time. See how Dr. Lauren Buckley is using “functional resurvey” experiments to gain new insights: https://bit.ly/403f7wW
🤩 UW was awarded $2.5 million from the @moorefound.bsky.social to fund 16 postdoctoral fellows in a number of fields.
Drs. Debarati Das, Jamie Cochran, Sophia Jannetty, and @atsushimatsuda.bsky.social will use this funding to advance biology-based discoveries: https://bit.ly/462pSmQ
Today and every day, we celebrate the women and girls whose curiosity and determination push science forward.
From groundbreaking research to inspiring the next generation, their impact is everywhere.
#IDWGIS #WomenInScienceDay
A PNAS study from the Dudley Lab at @pnrigenetics.bsky.social is challenging a long-held assumption in #genetics: that two harmful variants in the same gene always make disease worse.
See how these two variants can actually work together to restore protein function: https://bit.ly/4qp9X9l
"Location is everything in the brain."
@quantamagazine.bsky.social spotlights how CellTransformer is using AI to reveal new “neighborhoods” in the brain from massive single‑cell datasets.
🧠📈 https://www.quantamagazine.org/fed-on-reams-of-cell-data-ai-maps-new-neighborhoods-in-the-brain-20260209/
🛑 How does the immune system hit the brakes?
Dr. Daniel Campbell and his team at @benaroyaresearch.bsky.social are exploring how IL-2 and Tregs keep our immune responses in check and how harnessing their “brake system” could lead to new treatments for #AutoimmuneDiseases: https://bit.ly/400KQim
Congratulations to the newly elected members of @the-asci.org: Drs. Petter Bjornstad, Helen Chu, and Andrew Stergachis from @uwmedicine.bsky.social.
The ASCI is one of the nation’s oldest medical honor societies: https://bit.ly/3O10CHy
⚗️ Legend alert! 📚
Dr. Elizabeth “Betz” Halloran, a trailblazer in infectious disease modeling and vaccine trial design at @fredhutch.org, is now emerita after a career that changed how scientists think about vaccines and public health: https://bit.ly/4bJdg7T
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@uofwa.uw.edu was awarded $2.5 million from the @moorefound.bsky.social to fund 16 postdoctoral fellows in a number of fields across the @uwartsci.bsky.social, the College of Engineering and the @uwenvironment.bsky.social.
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