Reading Time: 2 minutesKevin Chow, co-founder, CEO and president of Mitera Biosciences. (Mitera Photo) Mitera Biosciences is taking a cue from one of nature’s most effective biological tricks:
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Ex-Amazon AI engineer bets six figures of his own money to disrupt drug discovery
Reading Time: 3 minutesRhizome Research team CEO and co-founder Xhuliano Brace. (Rhizome Photo) Xhuliano Brace quickly realized that venture capitalists weren’t going to write big checks for two
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‘Scientist-as-a-Service’: Seattle startup Pauling.AI aims to shrink drug discovery timelines by months
Reading Time: 2 minutesJavier Tordable, CEO and founder of Pauling.AI, at the Plug and Play Seattle event held earlier this month. (Pauling Photo) A Seattle-area startup called Pauling.AI
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Athira Pharma recovers from Alzheimer’s failure with breast cancer pivot and $90M investment
Reading Time: 2 minutesMark Litton, president and CEO of Athira Pharma. (Athira Photo) In a remarkable pivot, Athira Pharma is shifting its primary focus from Alzheimer’s to oncology
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Joon Care, a Seattle-based mental health startup serving youth, acquired by Handspring Health
Reading Time: 2 minutesJoon Care CEO Emily Pesce (left) and Amy Mezulis, Joon co-founder and former chief psychologist. (Joon Care Photo) Seattle-based mental health startup Joon Care has
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Seattle startup Casera emerges from PSL to help hospital managers clear bottlenecks with help from AI
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom left: Casera co-founder Neeraj Singh Bhavani, Pioneer Square Labs Managing Director T.A. McCann, and Casera co-founder Alex Levin. (Casera Photo) Casera, a new healthcare
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Microsoft, Providence and UW create AI that unlocks tumor insights at a scale previously out of reach
Reading Time: 3 minutesA schematic illustration of how GigTIME can take a hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) pathology slide and use AI to virtually identify a suite of proteins that
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Global health backslide: Gates Foundation report links funding cuts to rising child deaths
Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom left: Bill Gates, Dr. Bosede Afolabi and Dr. Opeyemi Akinajo at Lagos University Teaching Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria in June 2025. (Photo via Gates
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UW Nobel winner’s lab releases most powerful protein design tool yet
Reading Time: 4 minutesA protein created by RFdiffusion3, a newly released protein design tool from Nobel laureate David Baker’s lab, interacting with DNA. (UW Institute for Protein Design
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Seattle biotech startup Curi Bio lands $10M to expand its R&D support for drug discovery
Reading Time: 2 minutesCuri Bio’s ribbon cutting in April 2025 for its new headquarters on Seattle’s waterfront. Elliot Fisher, co-founder and chief business officer, cuts the ribbon with
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Anonymous donor gifts $50M to help University of Washington train ‘unsung heroes’ of healthcare
Reading Time: 3 minutesUniversity of Washington Medical Laboratory Science Undergraduate Program seniors Lily Koplowitz-Fleming, left, and Keila Uchimura (center) speak with UW Medicine CEO Tim Dellit at an
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Scientists create a supercomputer simulation that can reveal how the brain works, neuron by neuron
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis color-coded representation of a mouse cortex simulates the activity of brain cells. (Video via Allen Institute) Creating a virtual brain may sound like a
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