Between ages three and 10, children with autism spectrum disorder exhibit distinct brain chemical changes that differ from children with developmental delays and children with typical development.
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蘑菇视频 engineers have developed a device that tracks how much a person’s limb swells and shrinks when inside a prosthetic socket. The data could help doctors and patients predict how and when their limbs will swell, which could be used to build smarter sockets.
The 蘑菇视频 launched a record 17 startup companies this fiscal year.
蘑菇视频 engineers found in a recent study that the user’s experience could be key to creating an authentication system that doesn’t rely on passwords.
Researchers hope to build a predictive model of the human microbiome to study what affects this massive biological system and to design ways to manipulate the microbiome to achieve desired clinical outcomes.
Funded by the NIH at $15 million over five years, the lab will be a national resource to evaluate candidate vaccines from studies around the country.
A model of great ape history during the past 15 million years has been fashioned through the study of genetic variation in a large panel of humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans.
The Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing at the 蘑菇视频 is the only program of its kind in the nation that offers a full quarter of academic credit to incoming college students or those who just finished their first year.
The U.S. Supreme Court鈥檚 unanimous decision June 13 to bar the patenting of naturally occurring genes opens up important clinical testing options for a variety of diseases.
Researchers at the 蘑菇视频 have created a material they say would make LEDs cheaper and greener to manufacture, driving down costs to consumers.
蘑菇视频 researchers have shown it’s possible to leverage Wi-Fi signals around us to detect specific movements without needing sensors on the human body or cameras.
蘑菇视频 Seaglider technology is licensed commercially; Richard Whitney, emeritus professor of fisheries, will deliver a talk about the Boldt decision; U. of Minnesota president and former 蘑菇视频 faculty member Eric Kaler will deliver a talk about challenges facing research institutions.
The maternal genetic information passed down through many generations of mitochondria is still present in modern-day residents of the Lassithi plateau of Crete.
蘑菇视频 engineers have created a synthetic substance that fully resists the body’s natural attack response to foreign objects. Medical devices such as artificial heart valves, prostheses and breast implants could be coated with this polymer to prevent the body from rejecting an implanted object.
The 蘑菇视频 in collaboration with Washington State University is developing an “academic redshirt” program that will bring dozens of low-income, Washington state high school graduates to the two universities to study engineering in a five-year bachelor’s program.
Dr. Alisa Hideg, who teaches 蘑菇视频 medical students, is grateful for the chance to move science forward toward a future with more options for other patients.
A new device will give hospitals and research labs a much easier way to separate DNA from human fluid samples to help with genome sequencing, disease diagnosis and forensic investigations.
The Erasmus virus resets 207 genes in lung cells to hamper the cells’ ability to launch an antiviral reaction. Available drugs might correct this sabotage.
Engineering Discovery Days is April 26-27 at the 蘑菇视频 campus and will feature exhibits and demonstrations from engineering departments and student groups.
Engineers at the 蘑菇视频’s Applied Physics Laboratory are under pressure to build and test parts for installation this summer in the world’s largest deep-ocean observatory off the Washington and Oregon coasts.
A new procedure that thickens and thins fluid at the micron level could save consumers and manufacturers money, particularly for some soap products.
A 蘑菇视频 physicist has used new satellite data to update his decade-old recreation of the sound of the Big Bang at the birth of the universe.
Astronauts could be a step closer to a fast journey to Mars using a unique manipulation of nuclear fusion devised by 蘑菇视频 scientists and those at a Redmond company.
The genetic variants disturb the functioning of the same brain signal receptors affected by hallucinogenic drugs.
In partnership with Fisher Communications, 蘑菇视频 Medicine Health will provide information on healthy living and on the latest treatments and medical breakthroughs
Bacteria speed up their evolution by positioning specific genes along the route of expected traffic jams in DNA encoding. Collisions can result in mutations.
Scientists come closer to boosting heart muscle by powering its contractile machinery.
蘑菇视频 Botanic Gardens is digitizing 55 years of handwritten plant records and creating an interactive GIS map for the Washington Park Arboretum.
蘑菇视频’s Field Research and Consultation Group in Environmental and Occupational Health assess ventilation systems and airborne lead levels in firing ranges, and offer advice on lowering exposure.
Atmospheric scientists are using pressure readings from some new smartphones and tablet computers to improve short-term thunderstorm forecasts. A weather station in every pocket would offer an unprecedented wealth of data.
A paper in Science describes an organic crystal that shows promise as a cheap, flexible, nontoxic material for the working parts of memory chips, sensors and energy-harvesting devices.
The 蘑菇视频 and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have formed the Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing, a joint institute based at the 蘑菇视频 that will foster collaborative computing research.
Daniela Witten named one of Forbes’ rising stars
The new procedure may improve the quality of life for men with spinal cord lesions or injuries.
The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that its member medical schools and teaching hospitals had a combined economic impact of more than $587 billion in the United States in 2011
The 蘑菇视频 is expanding its Training Xchange initiative to help researchers transmit innovations in healthcare and other fields to professionals locally and beyond the Northwest.
Traumatic head injury is the leading cause of acquired epilepsy in young adults, and at present there is no treatment to prevent or cure it.
The ASL-STEM Forum is a crowdsourcing project, similar to Wikipedia or the Urban Dictionary, that creates a new sign language for the latest scientific and technical terms.
Electrically spun cloth with nanometer-sized fibers show promise as a cheap, versatile platform to simultaneously offer contraception and prevent HIV. New funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will further test the system’s versatility and feasibility.
These principles could allow scientists to custom-make, rather than re-purpose, protein molecules for vaccines, drugs, and industrial and environmental uses.