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Seattle cancer research institute affiliated with the University of Washington, noted for pioneering bone marrow transplant work.
Sami Kanaan's team at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center detected maternal cells in 26 of 37 children's brain samples, averaging 2.2 per 100,000 cells. A mosaic brain is a fair inference, but whether the cells affect function or disease is a separate question.
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Flu cases in western US states have climbed since early September, weeks ahead of the usual October or November start. Nature reported that researchers are examining an H1N1 mutation, G155E, though the evidence so far is a small Seattle sample and an unreviewed preprint.
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The Allen Institute, the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson are building models and databases of designed proteins. David Baker told WIRED the field usually sees that something works before it knows why.
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A University of Washington and Fred Hutch autopsy programme sequenced tumours from 20 people who died of bladder cancer to reconstruct how the disease spread. Plasmacytoid tumours turned out to limit the genomic damage chemotherapy leaves behind.
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Revolution Medicines' expanded access program for Rasonque closed immediately on FDA approval, leaving patients still mid-application to wait on insurers whose paperwork moves slower than metastatic pancreatic cancer.
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Twenty-six risk regions, about half of them near genes for nerve cell growth and pain sensitivity, give the condition the biological footing that decades of clinical dismissal lacked, though none of them can diagnose a patient.
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Cornell researchers say single-cell sequencing separates a destructive benign canine oral tumor from its malignant lookalike, and that an ERBB4 inhibitor slowed it in live tissue.
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