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Special Series: Follow this GeekWire staffer as he reprograms his health, starting with his genes

Some people have a sweet tooth. Daniel Rossi wishes it were that simple. “I have all the teeth,” he jokes. “I have… Read More

Accolade teams up with corporate wellness company Limeade to help workers stay healthy

Accolade, a health care company that helps individuals and businesses navigate the healthcare system, announced today that it is teaming up with… Read More

Chinese researchers become first to test CRISPR gene editing in humans, using immune cells to attack cancer

Researchers at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, have injected the first CRISPR-edited cells into a patient. The procedure is part of… Read More

Juno Therapeutics continues aggressive push toward cancer therapies as cash burn rate accelerates to $59.5 million

Juno Therapeutics, which spun out of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Seattle Children’s Research Institute… Read More

Heavily-funded Bay Area startup opening office in Seattle to fuel biological engineering

Zymergen, a biological engineering startup based in the San Francisco area, is building out an engineering center in Seattle, GeekWire… Read More

Does nature hold cancer cures? Join us for a live recording of the GeekWire podcast at Fred Hutch

We cover a lot of interesting and compelling technologies here at GeekWire, but none are quite as cool as the… Read More

Eli Lilly commits $15 million to fund TB drug discovery through Seattle-based initiative

The Seattle-based Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI), a product-focused nonprofit that fights infectious diseases around the world, announced today that… Read More

Patching desktops and wrangling genomes: Meet the pioneering CIO who’s bringing the fight to cancer at Fred Hutch

If Seattle’s prestigious Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is going to use cloud computing power to help eradicate cancer, then… Read More

Risk-takers: How a bet by the Bezos family is fueling a new effort to cure cancer

Back in 2009, immunotherapy was considered a long shot. The process involves reprogramming a patient’s T cells, important elements of the… Read More

Fred Hutch unveils first-of-its-kind Immunotherapy Clinic, named after Bezos family

To many, immunotherapies — treatments that use a patient’s immune system to fight cancer— sound like something from an episode of… Read More

Mayor Bill de Blasio wanted Juno Therapeutics to move to NYC — here’s why it’s staying in Seattle

What does it take for a region to become truly revolutionary? Dr. Richard Klausner, co-founder and director of biotechnology company Juno Therapeutics,… Read More

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