Solutions
March 1, 2000
Anti-bacterial armor
Buddy Ratner is leading a UW research team that may have discovered a way to prevent thousands of deaths from hospital-acquired infections each year.
Northern exposure
Students are working alongside UW faculty and graduate students for six weeks, building on a half-century of salmon research.
High anxiety
A UW professor and doctoral student conducted a pioneering study of people who fly frequently for business.
December 1, 1999
Magnetic relief
Depression's victims sometimes find that drugs and therapy can't help. Soon there may be a new solution — the power of magnetism.
Record funding
The University of Washington received a record $600 million in grant and contract awards for 1998-99.
Dyslexia research
UW researchers found that dyslexic children use nearly five times the brain area as normal children while performing a simple language task.
September 1, 1999
Stem cell breakthrough
A team of UW scientists has found a way to grow stem cells from mice in the laboratory.
For the heart
UW Professor Thomas Grayston is principal investigator of an $11 million grant to see if killing a form of bacteria reduces heart attacks.
June 1, 1999
Fooling the body
UW researchers are one step closer to creating artificial bones, tissue and organs that the human body will recognize as its own.
March 1, 1999
Chemical tied to drinking
By growing mice with altered brain chemicals, UW researchers may have found a key to alcohol consumption and its sedative effects.
Out of this world
A host of UW scientists are ready to embark on a program that will train people to find life in outer space.
December 1, 1998
Learning curves
UW research into learning disabilities—including new teaching tactics, genetic testing and brain imaging—may finally break some children's roadblocks to success.
Salt of the womb
Your preference for salt may have been imprinted while you were still in your mother's womb, according to UW psychologists.
Record research funds
The University of Washington received $557 million in grant and contract awards for 1997-98—the highest level ever received at the University.
Prejudice abounds
Prejudice affects 90 to 95 percent of the population, says a University of Washington psychologist who developed a new tool to measure the unconscious roots of prejudice.
September 1, 1998
Brilliant discovery
The brightest object in the universe has been discovered by a University of Washington astronomer and his colleagues.
The big chill
By freezing a ship in the Arctic ice cap, scientists may get hot leads on global warming.
Extra pounds OK
Being overweight later in life does not pose a significant health risk, while unintended weight loss is unhealthy for those 65 and older, a recent UW study found.
March 1, 1998
Deafness gene
UW Postdoctoral Fellow Eric D. Lynch successfully cloned a gene which, when mutated, causes an inherited form of deafness.
Safer on streets?
Recent UW research shows life on the street may be an improvement over what many children face at home.