by Susan Keown | Dec 16, 2023 | ScienceWire
Hannah Hickey writes for UW News about new research in ice cores that suggests the condition of North Atlantic’s phytoplankton populations is not as dire as scientists have feared. Phytoplankton — tiny floating photosynthesizers — are at the base of the ocean’s food...
by Susan Keown | Sep 2, 2023 | ScienceWire
In GeekWire, Charlotte Schubert (@schubertcm) takes us inside Seattle companies that are using new AI tools to generate protein designs, spun out from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. Proteins are the workhorse molecules of the body and are...
by Susan Keown | Sep 2, 2023 | ScienceWire
Elise Takahama (@elisetakahama) tells the inside story of a pioneering heart-liver transplant at UW Medicine, in which doctors saved the life of a heart-failure patient by replacing not only her heart, but also her healthy liver. By replacing her liver, the doctors...
by Susan Keown | Jun 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
James Urton (@jamesurton) of UW News writes about new research showing a surprising effect of climate: baby name popularity in the U.S. The prevalence of first names that are months or seasons is strongly correlated with the latitude of the state in which they were...
by Susan Keown | Mar 4, 2022 | ScienceWire
New NSWA member Hannah Furfaro (@HannahFurfaro) writes for the Seattle Times about the quest to develop vaccines against addictive drugs, which began decades ago and may soon come to fruition thanks to a new research center at the University of Washington. A recently...