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Dec-24 Brotman Baty Institute "SeaHub Celebrates First Anniversary"
Nov-24 The New York Times "DNA Tpewriters' Can Record a Cell's History"
Sep-24 The Scientist "A Prime-Editing Based Approach Records Cellular Genetic History"
Jul-24 UW Medicine Newsgroup "Genome recording makes living cells their own historians"
May-24 Nature (Research Briefing) "Quantitative profiling of regulatory DNA activity at single-cell resolution"
Apr-24 Nature Methods "A map of mouse embryogenesis"
Apr-24 Puget Sound Business Journal "Seattle biotech research hub launches with big goals for growth, scientific advances"
Apr-24 Allen Institute "Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology launch event & fireside chat"
Apr-24 KOMO News "Seattle's Allen Institute launches new hub to track health down to your cells"
Apr-24 Geek Wire "Inside the new Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, which uses DNA to 'record biology over time'"
Dec-23 Fierce Biotech "New Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology launches to build a genomic smart watch"
Dec-23 Inside Precision Medicine "Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology Launched with Jay Shendure at the Helm"
Dec-23 Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News "Synbio Hub Founded in Seattle by UW, CZI and Allen Institute"
Dec-23 Robots.net "Seattle Biotech Hub Receives $75 Million Funding To Advance “DNA Typewriter” Technology"
Dec-23 Sci-Tech today "Seattle Will Soon See An Increase In AI Research In Human Cells"
Dec-23 Fast Company "This new research hub wants to record your life history via your cells"
Dec-23 Allen Institute "Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology launched by Allen Institute, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the University of Washington will turn cells into recording devices to unlock secrets of disease"
Dec-23 Endpoints News "Allen Institute and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative launch research center to probe mysteries of the cell"
Dec-23 UW Medicine / Newsroom "Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology launched"
Dec-23 The Seattle Times "Research that brings AI into human cells will soon expand in Seattle"
Dec-23 PR Newswire "Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology launched by Allen Institute, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the University of Washington will turn cells into recording devices to unlock secrets of disease"
Dec-23 GeekWire "Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology plans to transform cells into tiny recording devices"
Dec-23 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative "Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology Launched By Allen Institute, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, And The University Of Washington Will Turn Cells Into Recording Devices To Unlock Secrets Of Disease"
Dec-23 TechCrunch "Seattle biotech hub pursues 'DNA typewriter' tech with $75M from tech billionaires"
Jul-22 Allen Institute "DNA Typewriter keeps a record of cell's long histories"
Jul-22 HHMI News "DNA Typewriter Taps Out a Record Inside Cells"
Nov-20 GeekWire "New human cell atlases track how tissues develop, providing a road map for research"
Sep-20 Allen Institute - Lab Notes podcast "Lab Notes - SCANning for coronavirus"
Apr-20 MIT Technology Review "The US already has the technology to test millions of people a day"
Mar-20 Seattle Business "Dr. Jay Shendure: The 2020 Leaders in Health Care Gold Award Winner for Achievement in Medical Research"
Feb-19 Allen Institute "2 million-cell experiment traces how a mammal grows, cell by single cell"
Feb-19 GeekWire "University of Washington researchers create massive genetic map of organ development"
Jan-19 National Academy of Sciences "Jay Shendure, University of Washington, to receive the 2019 Richard Lounsbery Award."
Sep-18 Associated Press "Lab test may identify dangerous gene mutations, study finds"
Sep-18 Nature "Huge genetic-screening effort helps pinpoint roots of breast cancer"
Sep-18 The Atlantic "With CRISPR, Scientists Engineered Nearly 4,000 Mutations of a Breast-Cancer Gene"
Sep-18 STAT News "Study cracks open the secrets of the cancer-causing BRCA1 gene"
Aug-18 HHMI News "Cell Atlas Reveals Landscape of Open Chromatin in 100,000 Cells"
Dec-17 GeekWire "UW, Seattle Children’s and Fred Hutch launch $50M Institute for Precision Medicine, using genetics to revolutionize health"
Dec-17 The Seattle Times "Costco co-founder and boyhood friend give $50 million for precision medicine at UW"
Aug-17 New York Times "A Speedier Way to Catalog Human Cells (All 37 Trillion of Them)"
May-16 The Atlantic "Using CRISPR to Learn How a Body Builds Itself"
Feb-16NIH Director's Blog "A New Tool in the Toolbox: New Method Traces Free-Floating DNA Back to Its Source"
Jan-16New York Times "Searching for Cancer Maps in Free-Floating DNA"
Oct-15The Atlantic "Taking the Uncertainty Out of Genetic Screening for Cancer Risk"
May-15Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute "HHMI Selects 26 of the Nation's Top Biomedical Scientists"
Apr-15Seattle Times "UW experts shed light on false positives in prenatal tests"
Mar-15NIH News "NIH forms team of experts to chart course for the President’s Precision Medicine Initiative research network"
Jul-14HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology "Pioneer in Next Generation Sequencing Receives 2014 HudsonAlpha Life Sciences Prize"
Jul-14Cell Cell 40th Anniversary 40-under-40
Feb-14NIH Director's Blog "Creative Minds: Interpreting Your Genome"
Oct-13Federa (Dutch) "FederaPrijs to developer of groundbreaking DNA analysis"
Aug-13New York Times "A Family Consents to a Medical Gift, 62 Years Later" (Original Article)
Aug-13KUOW Weekday "What Caused Henrietta Lacks’ Aggressive Cancer? "
Jul-12American Society of Human Genetics "ASHG Honors Dr. Jay Shendure with Curt Stern Award for 2012"
Jun-12KUOW 94.9 (The Conversation) "UW Prenatal Test Could Replace Amniotic Fluid Testing"
Jun-12Los Angeles Times "Entire DNA of fetus revealed through risk-free testing"
Jun-12NBC Nightly News "Testing saliva for genetic makeup"
Jun-12New York Times "DNA Blueprint for Fetus Built Using Tests of Parents"
Jun-12NPR "Are Fetal DNA Tests A Key To Pandora's Box?"
May-12HHMI Bulletin "Exome Sequencing: Opening the Flood Gates"
Apr-12New York Times "Scientists Link Gene Mutation to Autism Risk"
Dec-10Times of India "Gujarati woman becomes first Indian to have genes mapped"
Nov-09Nature News "Selective sequencing solves a genetic mystery"
Sep-09In Sequence "Exome Project Paper Shows Exon Sequencing's Potential for Rare Disease Research"
Sep-09Forbes "Cheap DNA Sequencing"
Aug-09NIH (NHLBI) "NIH-Funded Researchers Sequence Exomes of 12 People"
Oct-06Technology Review TR35: The $1,000 genome
Aug-05New York Times "2 New Methods to Sequence DNA Promise Vastly Lower Costs"