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Public Health Needs a New Motto: No Apologies, No Surrender

Over the past year, I’ve noticed a pattern among some of my colleagues in public health, biomedical research, and the ...

COVID vaccine: From pandemic game-changer to complicated flashpoint

By 2025, more than 13 billion doses of the vaccine are estimated to have been administered globally, saving untold millions of lives and suffering.
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Two Fred Hutch students receive American Society for Hematology graduate awards

Elana Thieme and Mark Mendoza, fourth-year graduate students in the Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) PhD Program jointly ...

Membrane 'neighborhood' helps transporter protein regulate cell signaling

When a cell receives a message from outside, it generates a molecule called cyclic AMP (cAMP) to relay this message. To ...

Patients can safely receive stem cell transplants from mismatched and unrelated donors, study shows

For years, the search for a stem cell donor has felt like a quest for a rare key—one that fits a lock with eight intricate tumblers, each representing a genetic marker. For many patients with blood ...

Protective regimen allows successful stem cell transplant even without close genetic match between donor and recipient

A new study shows that giving the chemotherapy drug cyclophosphamide after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation, a curative treatment for common types of blood cancer, can make the procedure ...