Nearly half the world’s population is at risk for dengue and work to develop a more effective vaccine is complicated by the fact that there are
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HIV care in the US sees big gains, but disparities remain
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,div class="body">Robin Nance, UW Biostat grad (MS ’04) and current doctoral student in epidemiology, is among the lead authors of this new study. She's credit with helping to develop the statistical models "that formed the backbone of the paper.”
Dengue vaccine development taps new approach
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,div class="body">There is a new, innovative approach to dengue vaccine development, according to a paper published Aug. 20 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Ancient Bone Reveals Surprising Sex Lives of Neanderthals
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,div class="body">Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, recently announced that they’d found something quite surprising: the bones of a child who had a Neanderthal for a mother and a Denisovan for a father. Sharon Browning, a professor of biostatistics and a statistical geneticist at the University of Washington, says the finding was "like catching something as it's happening."
UW researchers contribute to international study finding genetic link to psychiatric disorders
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,div class="body">UW Biostatistics researchers Ellen Wijsman and Kenneth Rice contributed to this study relating to similar gene variations in psychiatric brain disorders.
5 questions on dengue vaccine analysis
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,div class="body">Asked to help re-examine clinical trial data, Fred Hutch biostatisticians foresee a new era of personalized vaccines.
University of Washington (UW) researchers have determined that two distinct pulses of Denisovans, a sister group to Neanderthals, contributed to the ancestry of East Asians.
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