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New high-tech lab at Fred Hutch creates 3D maps of proteins to aid therapeutics and vaccine research April 24, 2021 at 12:10 am Assistant Professor Melody Campbell prepares a sample in the Shared Resources Cryo-EM Lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. (Fred Hutch Photo) Dr. Melody Campbell was an undergraduate student when she first noticed the beauty and power of cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a technique that uses extreme temperatures and an electron microsco...

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Fred Hutch announces 2021 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award recipients Thirteen graduate students selected for prestigious honor in biological sciences Photos of award recipients Jeremy Mseitif SEATTLE —March 1, 2021 — Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center today announced the recipients of the 2021 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement in graduate studies in the biological sciences. The 13 award recipients w...

Outwitting the foe: predicting evolved antibody escape in SARS-CoV-2 From the Bloom Lab (Basic Sciences Division) January 18, 2021 • By A Isabella The Covid-19 pandemic has redefined normalcy in our lives. But humans are a resilient species, and we have, though not without much pain and heartache, admirably adjusted to this ‘new normal’ a mere year after the virus’s emergence on the world stage. Unfortunately, to compound the challenges, it seems that every time ...

I have an obligation to swing for the fences Philanthropic funds at just the right time helped Mark Roth plumb the secrets of immortality December 21, 2020 • By Sabrina Richards / Fred Hutch News Service Dr. Mark Roth and other Hutch scientists explain why fearless science matters. StraightEIGHT Films Tiptoeing toward immortality will only get you so far. Eventually, you need to leap. Seventeen years ago, Dr. Mark Roth, a basic scientist at Fr...