Tompa: Keeps on Giving

Kids are forever, writes Rachel Tompa, for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center News—emotionally and physically. Rachel reports that scientists at the Hutch have found that mothers retain cells from their baby long after delivery. The phenomenon is a natural bone...

Miner: Berlin to Seattle, Minus HIV

Did you know the Berlin Patient is from Seattle? Mindy Miner adds local color to the story of Timothy Ray Brown, who made global headlines last year when he was cured of HIV after stem cell transplants for leukemia. Brown spoke at a forum in Seattle this summer at...

Tompa: 161,808 women and going strong

What changed our minds about hormones for menopause symptoms? Rachel Tompa explains in a feature for Quest, from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, about the Women’s Health Initiative. Funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1993 this study saved...

Miner: Biodiversity and You

The microbes in and on your body might be more important for health than your genes. Mindy Miner reports on womens’ personal biodiversity and bacterial vaginosis, in a story about research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division....

Miner: Who’s Who in Vaccine Research

The monthly newsletter VIDD Vitals takes us inside Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division with upcoming events and recent publications and awards. Mindy Miner profiles the institute’s biostaticians, scientists, and...