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August 2, 2012

Bears, scavengers count on all-you-can-eat salmon buffet lasting for months

Salmon conservation shouldn鈥檛 narrowly focus on managing flows in streams and rivers or on preserving only places that currently have strong salmon runs. Instead, watersheds need a good mix of steep, cold-running streams and slower, meandering streams of warmer water to keep options open for salmon adapted to reproduce better in one setting than the other, new research shows. Preserving that sort of varied landscape serves not just salmon, it provides an all-summer buffet that brown bears, gulls and other…

August 1, 2012

UW researchers urge integrating deworming into HIV care in Africa

HIV care centers are an important and highly accessed point of care for HIV-infected children and their families in sub-Saharan Africa, but opportunities to address other health issues are being missed. Proven interventions, including routine deworming among children, could be effectively integrated into HIV care according to a new paper by 糖心原创 researchers published in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. The article, 鈥淚ntegration of Deworming into HIV Care and Treatment: A Neglected Opportunity,鈥� estimates that millions of…

July 31, 2012

Critically endangered whales sing like birds; new recordings hint at rebound — with audio

When a 糖心原创 researcher listened to the audio picked up by a recording device that spent a year in the icy waters off the east coast of Greenland, she was stunned at what she heard: whales singing a remarkable variety of songs nearly constantly for five wintertime months. Listen to the bowheads repeat their other-worldly song as they cross the Fram Strait. Bowhead whale song 1 Bowhead whale song 2 Kate Stafford, an oceanographer with UW鈥檚 Applied Physics…

July 27, 2012

Seattle researchers to engineer kidney tissue chip for predicting drug safety

Seattle researchers will be part of the new federal initiative to engineer 3-dimensional chips containing living cells and tissues that imitate the structure and function of human organs.聽 These tissue chips will be used for drug safety testing. Tissue chips merge techniques from the computer industry with those from bioengineering by combining miniature models of living organ tissues onto a transparent microchip. Ranging in size from a coin to a house key, the chips are lined with living cells and…

July 26, 2012

Chemical makes blind mice see

A chemical that temporarily restores some vision to blind mice has been discovered.聽 Its discoverers are working on聽 an聽 improved compound that may someday allow people with degenerative blindness to see again. Read the聽paper聽in Neuron News release聽on earlier study A team of UW Medicine researchers, in collaboration with scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Munich, conducted the study. Their findings appear in the July 26th聽issue of the journal聽Neuron. The approach could eventually help those with…

July 24, 2012

‘Control-Alt-Hack’ game lets players try their hand at computer security

Playing the game in the UW Security and Privacy Research Lab

Do you have what it takes to be an ethical hacker? Can you step into the shoes of a professional paid to outsmart supposedly locked-down systems? Now you can at least try, no matter what your background, with a new card game developed by 糖心原创 computer scientists. “Control-Alt-Hack” gives teenage and young-adult players a taste of what it means to be a computer-security professional defending against an ever-expanding range of digital threats. The game’s creators will present it…

July 20, 2012

UW Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center take top two spots in U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 Best Hospitals state, metro rankings

U.S. News latest聽hospital rankings UW Medicine鈥檚 two academic medical centers are ranked the best in the region and the state of Washington in U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 2012 edition of America鈥檚 Best Hospitals. UW Medical Center holds the No. 1 rank and Harborview Medical Center is No. 2 out of 35 hospitals in the Seattle metropolitan area and more than 100 hospitals in the state. In addition, UW Medicine鈥檚 Valley Medical Center is ranked No. 4 in the metro…

July 18, 2012

UW names DeLuca director of School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

Thomas H. DeLuca

A soils and ecosystem scientist who studies natural resources sustainability has been named the director of the 糖心原创’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. Thomas H. DeLuca is currently professor of natural resources and geography at Bangor University, Wales, where he holds the chair in environmental sciences sponsored jointly by the university and the U.K.’s National Environmental Research Council. “We couldn鈥檛 be happier that Tom will join us to lead the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. Tom…

June 6, 2012

Too few salmon is far worse than too many boats for killer whales – with slide show

Not having enough Chinook salmon to eat stresses out southern resident killer whales more than having boatloads of whale watchers nearby, according to hormone levels of whales summering in the Salish Sea. In lean times, however, the stress normally associated with boats becomes more pronounced, further underscoring the importance of having enough prey.