An artificial connection between nerve cells in the brain and muscles has been shown to restore voluntary movement to paralyzed limbs. This finding was reported today in the journal Nature.
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Five visiting scholars from Afghanistan at the University of Washington have been reported missing to the University of Washington Police. All five have been unaccounted for since Monday, Oct.6.
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Results published in the Oct. 14 edition of Development Cell suggest that a diseased or damaged heart in a developing embryo can repair itself, even after all the heart's major cell types and structures have developed. Timothy Cox, a University of Washington research associate professor in pediatrics, is the study's senior author.
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Researchers at the University of Washington have updated a traditional Chinese medicine to create a compound that is more than 1,200 times more specific in killing certain kinds of cancer cells than currently available drugs, heralding the possibility of a more effective chemotherapy drug with minimal side effects.
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The UW's president and provost have both been elected to prestigious national societies.
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The UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine is among seven accredited schools awarded funding by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to evaluate the structure, capabilities, and performance of public health systems for preparedness and emergency response activities.
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Current polls of the presidential election may be underestimating Barack Obama's support by 3 to 4 percent nationally and possibly larger margins in the Southeast and some strongly Republican states.
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New research suggests that the edge of the Tibetan plateau might have been preserved for thousands of years by ice and glacial debris at the mouth of many tributaries to the Tsangpo River. Those deposits appear to have acted as dams that prevented the rapidly traveling Tsangpo from carving upstream into the plateau.
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An atomic-resolution view of an enzyme found only in the eye has given researchers at the University of Washington clues about how this enzyme, essential to vision, is activated.
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The Pacific Northwest Center for Neural Engineering will host a workshop this week, sponsored by the University of Washington, the National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research.
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