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Every month, Fred Hutch postdoc writer/editors summarize two papers from each of our scientific divisions to stimulate collaborations across campus
February 17, 2020
Hutch influenza experts assay the latest science
Flu shots remain your best bet for protection, but no guarantee against infection
Dr. M. Elizabeth ‘Betz’ Halloran elected to National Academy of Medicine
Statistician honored for helping the world anticipate, manage and prevent infectious disease outbreaks
Dengue virus evolution drives multiple disease outcomes
From the Bedford lab, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division
Life Sciences Research Foundation funds study to track evolution, spread of bird flu
Computational biologist and virologist Dr. Louise Moncla receives 3-year grant
Why does flu make some people sick, but not others?
New study points to single mutations that allow flu to slip past immune system of some people, but not others
Deep mutational scanning predicts pandemic influenza sequences
From the Bedford and Bloom labs, Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Basic Sciences Divisions
Mapping all flu routes from bird to human
Researchers take a comprehensive look at the changes in a bird flu protein that helps the virus jump to humans
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
Why now is the time to get your flu shot
Protecting yourself also helps those around you, especially cancer patients vulnerable to influenza
Forecasting the shape of flu viruses to come
‘Deep mutational scanning’ to make a better flu vaccine
Scanning hemagglutinin to predict the future of flu
From the Bloom Lab, Basic Sciences Division and Bedford Lab, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division
A slapdash virus relies on quantity over quality to achieve successful infections
From the Bloom Lab, Basic Sciences Division
Fred Hutch’s Katherine Xue among 2018 Weintraub Award recipients
13 graduate students selected for prestigious award in biological sciences
Lab partners: two viruses work together only in cell culture
From the Bloom Lab, Basic Sciences Division
When scientific hypotheses don’t pan out
Research studies are often built around an educated guess. What happens when those guesses are wrong?
Flu season tips for cancer patients
It’s bad out there. Here are 7 things you need to know to protect yourself — and others
Tracking influenza evolution within individual patients may help predict trends
From the Bloom Laboratory , Basic Sciences Division
Will the flu vaccine work for you? Answer may be in your genes
Set of 9 genes that predicts flu response in adults under 35 could be first step to personalized vaccine
What we can learn about global flu evolution from individual infections
Study of 10-year-old flu samples finds virus’s evolution in individual transplant patients partially mirrors later global trends
Deciphering how influenza escapes neutralizing antibodies
From the Bloom Laboratory, Basic Sciences Division