Articles about Medicine

UW Medicine geneticist Jay Shendure in lab

Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology plans to transform cells into tiny recording devices

The Allen Institute, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the University of Washington have launched a collaboration called the Seattle Hub… Read More

Allen Frontiers Group awards $10M to set up research center for neuroimmunology

The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, a division of the Seattle-based Allen Institute, is launching a research center in New… Read More

Junior Geek of the Month: Future doctor Nicole Magaki wants to make health care more accessible

Nicole Magaki doesn’t just want to be a doctor. She wants to help doctors help more people. A 17-year-old from… Read More

Rep. DelBene forms medical technology caucus in Congress

Rep. Suzan DelBene — a Washington Democrat representing a region renowned for its biotech sector — formed a new medical… Read More

Amazon plans 20 healthcare clinics across U.S. for warehouse employees and their families

Amazon plans to establish healthcare facilities for its warehouse workers and their families across the country. The company unveiled the… Read More

WHO resumes using hydroxychloroquine in COVID trial; discouraging study retracted due to doubts

After a weeklong review of safety data, the World Health Organization announced today that it’s ending a “pause” in the… Read More

Seattle startup wants to revolutionize medicine for kids with world’s first gummy drugs

Connie Wan is no different than any other parent who has struggled to get a little kid to take medication… Read More

2019’s Allen Distinguished Investigators will focus on the mysteries of our cells

The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, a division of Seattle’s Allen Institute, is making a total of $7.5 million in… Read More

Fujifilm SonoSite and AI2 team up to add artificial intelligence to ultrasound imaging

A new collaboration between Fujifilm SonoSite and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence aims to use AI to generate better interpretations of ultrasound… Read More

Geek of the Week: UW’s Justin Chan uses computer science skills to democratize medical devices

Whenever Justin Chan visited a hospital, he was surprised to see the physically large and expensive devices that are rolled… Read More

Full findings from NASA ‘Twins Study’ raise more questions about long stints in space

Ten research teams today shared comprehensive scientific results from an unprecedented experiment to gauge the health differences that developed between… Read More

Bill Gates, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos fund research to find a better Alzheimer’s diagnosis

The richest people in the world are putting some of their fortunes toward finding a better way to diagnose Alzheimer’s… Read More

What that meditation app you downloaded (and don’t use) can really do for you — and what it can’t

Jalice May is a busy mom who works almost full-time at her church. On Sundays, she oversees the nursery during… Read More

Super surgeons: Proprio aims to bring computer vision and AI to the operating room

Seattle startup Proprio Vision wants to overhaul how surgeons see. At least, that’s the admittedly ambitious first step toward its… Read More

Geek of the Week: Fred Hutch’s Steve Pergam caught a ‘bug’ for infectious diseases and research

Although Steve Pergam grew up with parents who were both physicians, he was never pushed to be a doctor as… Read More

Biotech journalist Luke Timmerman sets his sights on Mount Kilimanjaro and $1M for cancer research

As a journalist, Luke Timmerman has covered biotech for more than 17 years. Now, the Timmerman Report founder is making… Read More

Stem cells help fix damaged hearts in monkeys; human testing is on the way

Medical researchers have restored the function of damaged hearts in macaque monkeys, using heart muscle cells derived from human embryonic… Read More

How a robotic system that grows human organoids can help save real live humans

Good news, everybody: Robots can now create human mini-organs from stem cells. What could possibly go wrong? The method may… Read More

Zipline adds zip to medical delivery service with next-gen drone that goes 80 mph

A California-based aerial delivery venture called Zipline has unveiled what it calls “the fastest commercial delivery drone on Earth,” capable… Read More

Uber Health launches with tools to help patients get to medical appointments

Uber launched a new service Thursday designed to ferry patients to and from doctors’ appointments. The Uber Health dashboard allows… Read More

Benaroya Research Institute awarded $5M grant to study personalized treatments for peanut allergies

Millions of people around the world suffer from food allergies, but we still know very little about how those allergies… Read More

How seconds of staring at the solar eclipse led to a world of hurt for one woman

A medical case reported today in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology proved the wisdom of all those warnings not to stare… Read More

How virtual reality is helping scientists make new discoveries about our health

Caroline Stefani has a cool job: She works at the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason in Seattle, looking for new… Read More

Working Geek: Swatee Surve’s startup uses video games to help people manage chronic health conditions

Swatee Surve is reimagining the way patients manage chronic health conditions and keep their healthcare providers up-to-date. That’s the mission… Read More

Stephen Hawking, take heart: Revalesio’s ALS drug gets regulatory boost from FDA

Revalesio, a biomedical company headquartered in Tacoma, Wash., says it’s been cleared to benefit from federal incentives for the development… Read More

UW team creates smartphone selfie system to screen for pancreatic cancer

University of Washington researchers have created a smartphone app that can let users screen themselves for pancreatic cancer and other… Read More

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Week In Geek Podcast: Microsoft bets its future on AI, and scientists discover the cause of allergies

There was a grab bag of interesting headlines this week, but we’ll start with a big change at one of… Read More

A secret Amazon team is reportedly working on disruptive healthcare tech

Amazon is on a mission to disrupt everything from retail to data storage to entertainment media, so it should come… Read More

UW researchers discover a recipe to regenerate retinal cells in mice

University of Washington researchers have found a way to activate cells in the retinas of adult mice to turn into… Read More

UW researchers’ ‘kidney on a chip’ will be prepped for space station experiment

A stack of card-sized gizmos that test the effects of drugs, toxins and weightlessness on human kidney cells is due… Read More