Science Spotlight

Science Spotlight

New Spotlight Team

From the left: Science Spotlight editors Maggie Burhans (Public Health Sciences), Hannah Richards (Human Biology), Blair DeBuysscher (Vaccine and Infectious Disease), Michelle Kriner (Basic Sciences), Anne-Sophie Kuhlmann (Clinical Research Division)

Photo by Robert Hood / Fred Hutch

Current Stories

An upgrade in prostate cancer prognosis predictions
The use of a validated DNA methylation biomarker score significantly improves the accuracy of predicting prostate cancer outcomes.
Guiding inactivity of latent HIV reservoirs
Using CRISPR/Cas9 as a way to address destruction of latent reservoirs in HIV infection creating functional cure.
How Helicobacter pylori stays in shape
Csd5 interacts with MurF, CcmA and ATP synthase within a protein complex to maintain helical cell shape
Location matters in recombination
Fission yeast helps solve an 88-year old mystery for preventing chromosome mis-segregation during meiosis
Microsimulation model with a macro impact
Modeling breast cancer detection and treatment in low- and middle-income countries permits identification of effective and resource-efficient disease control policies.
Models aren’t just pretty
Using a stochastic mathematical model researchers suggest that increasing overall CD8+ tissue resident T cells within the mucosa could curb symptomatic HSV-2 events.
Stopping the heartache
The basic nutrient iodide provides protection against heart damage caused by heart attacks
Taking the shortcut to frontline treatment
Sequential cancer treatments trigger emergence of resistance mutations and suggest employing last resort treatment as a frontline therapy
The measure of a chromatin binding protein
Domains for nuclear localization, homo-dimerization and protein cleavage identified in SMCHD1, a causative gene for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
The prized fraction of Fanconi Anemia
Lineage depletion improves isolation of rare hematopoietic stem cells in Fanconi Anemia patients

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Editors

Michelle Kriner, PhD
Basic Sciences Division

Yiting Lim, PhD
Human Biology Division

Maggie Burhans, PhD
Public Health Sciences Division

Blair DeBuysscher, PhD
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division

Anne-Sophie Kuhlmann, PhD
Clinical Research Division

Julian Simon, PhD
Faculty Mentor
Clinical Research Division
and Human Biology Division

Jessica Tobin
Allysha Eyler
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