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New Science Spotlight Articles
Every month, Fred Hutch postdoc writer/editors summarize two papers from each of our scientific divisions to stimulate collaborations across campus
September 16, 2019
New type of viral anti-CRISPR found in human microbiome
Protein used by viruses to combat DNA-snipping action of bacterias’ CRISPR immune system
Harmit Malik elected to National Academy of Sciences
Evolutionary biologist honored for fundamental discoveries of genetic conflict
2 Hutch postdocs named Damon Runyon-Dale F. Frey Breakthrough Scientists
Drs. Alistair Russell and Tera Levin among few Damon Runyon Fellows selected for further support
Grad student Sarah Hilton among 200 chosen worldwide to attend 2018 Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Annual meeting of the minds exposes Hutch trainee to the diversity of math and computer science
The same but different: reconciling the diversity of centromeres with their highly conserved function
From the Henikoff Lab, Basic Sciences Division
Understanding HIV’s evolutionary past — and future
Studies of how the virus evolved and how it might change down the road could help researchers develop vaccines or cures for the infection
A killer is revealed: kambucha yeast poison their competitors
From the Malik, Smith, and Zanders Laboratories (Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutch and the Stowers Institute)
A ‘selfish gene’ that poisons its own host
Discovery of genes that divide two species in a simple fungus sheds light on complex evolutionary principles
Domesticated transposons help feng shui DNA
From Malik (Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutch) and the Yao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Laboratories
'Mother's Curse' mutation — harmful to males but not females — ID'd for the first time in animals
Study in fruit flies identifies a mutation in mitochondria — the energy factories of our cells — that harms males but not females
Why fish school: Study uncovers genetic link to social behavior
Study uncovers genetic link to social behavior in stickleback fish
The plastic fantastic brain: Why losing one sense rewires others
Study finds worms that can’t feel are better smellers — and the phenomenon is reversible
The sixth samurai: Finding a gene that divides one species from another
How six male flies — among more than 300,000 females — led to the discovery of an evolution-driving gene
HIV’s unusual family tree
How the virus leapt from monkeys to chimps to humans, and why it doesn’t happen more often
Fantastic failures: Scientific setbacks fuel big gains
Whether solving the mysteries of outer space or cancer cells, many major advances followed messy moments
Q&A: How evolutionary biologists got lucky with a sperm discovery
Drs. Harmit Malik and Mia Levine on a male fruit fly protein necessary for embryo survival
Basic Sciences’ Patel wins Whitney fellowship
Malik Lab researcher studies evolution’s effect on mitochondrial function
Malik receives Vilcek Prize
Basic Sciences Division evolutionary biologist honored for creative promise in biomedical science
Center presents inaugural Lasker Lecture Nov. 16
Lasker Foundation has chosen the Hutchinson Center to launch an annual lecture series; each will feature a Lasker laureate and a young researcher
Researchers document rapid, dramatic 'reverse evolution' in the threespine stickleback fish
Adaptation coincides with the '60s cleanup of toxic pollution in Seattle's Lake Washington