University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce announced Wednesday that she will leave her leadership position next year, calling it “an honor of a lifetime” to serve the institution where… Read More
Perhaps you’ve heard the admonishment “look at me when I’m speaking to you.” But what if while wearing headphones you could listen to someone more clearly just by looking at… Read More
The University of Washington’s first-ever Innovation Month is a campus-wide celebration of the innovation that happens everywhere at UW, every day, across disciplines. It begins on May 1 and continues… Read More
Researchers opened the doors Monday to the new Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, a collaboration between the Allen Institute, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the University of Washington. The hub combines “academic creativity with… Read More
Researchers at the University of Washington have a new jewel in the realm of wearable technology. A smart earring prototype called the “Thermal Earring” was introduced recently as a wireless… Read More
The news: Myosana Therapeutics, a Seattle startup developing gene therapy technology, raised $5 million to develop an early-stage candidate treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Mysona says its experimental platform… Read More
Faced with filling hospitals, serious infection rates and aggressive new COVID-19 variants, King County’s Department of Health will require proof of vaccination in most commercial public gathering places such as… Read More
Four Seattle startups have won a slot in a financial technology incubator run by banking company BECU and CoMotion, the innovation arm of the University of Washington. The year-long program… Read More
A team of University of Washington students whose mission is to simplify planning and transactions related to burial plots, has won the $25,000 grand prize in the 2021 Dempsey Startup… Read More
Microsoft is teaming up with other companies to form an alliance to advance the field of DNA data storage, which promises to revolutionize the way vital records are kept for… Read More
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered life as we know it in Seattle, and a team from the University of Washington is conducting research using images from around the city to… Read More
Keeping traffic flowing in Seattle is not an easy feat, especially when you factor in the stop-and-go maneuvering of ride-hailing vehicles such as those run by Uber and Lyft. A… Read More
Professor Magdalena Balazinska has long been considered a leader in data management and data science at the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. Balazinska… Read More
It takes three weeks for a mouse to develop from a fertilized egg into a newborn. In that time, there are four days that arguably matter more than all the… Read More
An app that uses sonar to detect opioid overdoses is making the leap from research to startup mode with the formation of a new company called Sound Life Sciences. The Second… Read More
You may have heard of naloxone, an antidote to opioid overdoses so effective that the U.S. Surgeon General recommended people carry it to combat the opioid crisis. But having a treatment in… Read More
Like all entrepreneurs, Christy Johnson wears many hats. She’s currently the CEO and founder of strategy consulting firm Artemis Connection, an adjunct faculty member at the University of Washington, a… Read More
In a first for science, researchers from the University of Washington, Microsoft and Twist Bioscience have stored archival-quality recordings of audio on DNA. It’s just one of several milestones in… Read More
The students and technicians in white lab coats look like they could be testing and developing processes and prototypes for just about anything. But at the University of Washington’s Clean… Read More
On this episode of the Week in Geek Podcast, we start with two fascinating tech advances with not-so-great implications for humanity. First, researchers from the University of Washington’s Paul G.… Read More
Long before you take that first sip of an ice-cold beer, the ingredients that went into that beverage had to ferment for weeks. Now University of Washington chemist Alshakim Nelson… Read More
Losing the ability to control your own mind seems like something out of a dystopian science-fiction novel, but some researchers aren’t taking chances. They’re worried about the ethical implications of… Read More
A key concept for the new Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington, currently under construction in Seattle, is “See Through the Burke.” It’s part of… Read More
As a senior data scientist at Groupon and an affiliate associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Tacoma, one might expect that Muhammad… Read More
Molecular biologists have enlisted cutting-edge trends in genomics and big data to get a grip on one of the grand challenges of biotech: figuring out how protein molecules fold. But… Read More
