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Photographer and scientist Chris Linder to speak Jan. 6
UW to get $30M to study genome data in health care

Cystic fibrosis, sickle-cell anemia and muscular dystrophy are among some 6,000 inherited disorders caused mainly by the mutation of a single gene.

And though each defect affects a relatively small number of people, together they may provide the clues that will…

²ÝÁñÉçÇø Shannon Point Scientist Selected for Antarctica Research Review Panel
Woodring faculty present research at national conferences
Garfinkle presents at Vienna conference
Rumbles in the Alps reveal rockslides

Until now, most seismic research on landslides has focused on how to identify individual slides among the general seismic din of the Earth. But in comparison with earthquakes, rockslides produce "kinda ugly signals", so they are difficult to detect, says Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a…

Dozier given summer research grant to study female masculinity in the workplace
²ÝÁñÉçÇø instructor joins research crowdfunding project

Scientists should communicate with the public about their research. We've been hearing variations on that for years, but a recent decision by a group of scientists to use crowdfunding to ask for research dollars directly from the public has revisited this notion in a new way. I'm…

Birds of a feather, invite investigation: Is gymnastics really stunting growth?

Balance is one universal technique that should be applied to all aspects of one’s existence in order to attain the optimal quality of life. Of late, the international community has come to question the effects of physical training on the human body.

Previously, it was taken as given, that…

The Coal Pipeline: In Pacific Northwest, A Local Battle Has Global Fallout

The flyer and I landed in Matt Krogh's Bellingham office on the same October afternoon. I had stopped by to hear why he thought building the country's largest coal port just north of town was a bad idea; the four-page full-color mailing had arrived to try to convince him otherwise.…

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