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2026

Jan-26 · Nature

A 'time capsule for cells' stores the secret experiences of their past

2025

Nov-25 · UW Medicine Newsroom

Clarivate announces 2025 list of highly cited researchers

Oct-25 · Allen Institute

Lab Notes | Bridging science fiction and reality: Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology

Oct-25 · UW Medicine Newsroom

Jay Shendure elected to National Academy of Medicine

Sep-25 · Nature

Real-time molecular recorders expose the inner lives of cells

2024

Dec-24 · Brotman Baty Institute

SeaHub Celebrates First Anniversary

Nov-24 · The New York Times

DNA Typewriters' Can Record a Cell's History

Sep-24 · The Scientist

A Prime-Editing Based Approach Records Cellular Genetic History

Sep-24 · NHGRI feature story

Differences in our DNA have major influences on how our genomes function, but how?

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 · MyNorthwest

Breakthroughs in Synthetic Biology (starts at 11:42)

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'

2023

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

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 · 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

Dec-23 · TechCrunch

Seattle biotech hub pursues 'DNA typewriter' tech with $75M from tech billionaires

2022

Jul-22 · Lab & Life

Lab retreats for stepping away and moving closer

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

2021

May-21 · Nature Methods

Tick-tock, it's RNA o'clock

Feb-21 · Nature Portfolio

Genomic Sequencing

Feb-21 · Nature

Milestones in Genomic Sequencing

Jan-21 · Nature

A molecular handbook for human development

2020

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

Aug-20 · Genome Web

New Methods Boost Scale of Single-Cell Gene Expression Dynamics Studies

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

2019

Dec-19 · Wall Street Journal

A Genetic Test Led Seven Women in One Family to Have Major Surgery. Then the Odds Changed.

Dec-19 · UW Medicine | Newsroom

Technique shows how individual cancer cells react to drugs

Dec-19 · Genome Web

High-Throughput Single-Cell Transcriptomics Assay Facilitates Compound Screens

Oct-19 · Allen Institute

A computational challenge to help developmental biology

May-19 · Seattle Times

Jay Shendure's cool job using genome science to assess the risk of disease

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

Feb-19 · Nature

Podcast: Mouse cell atlases, and cataloguing viruses

Jan-19 · National Academy of Sciences

Jay Shendure, University of Washington, to receive the 2019 Richard Lounsbery Award.

2018

Sep-18 · Associated Press

Lab test may identify dangerous gene mutations, study finds

Sep-18 · Nature

Gene editing reveals the effect of thousands of variants in a key cancer gene

Sep-18 · UW Huddle

BRCA1 study will help reduce uncertainty in genetic testing

Sep-18 · Komo News

UW research may help scientists understand why some people are at higher risk for disease

Sep-18 · GenomeWeb

Saturation Editing of BRCA1 Exons Reveals Functional, Non-Functional Variants

Sep-18 · NBC News

What's your breast cancer risk? This study aims to tell you precisely

Sep-18 · The Conversation

Gene-editing technique CRISPR identifies dangerous breast cancer mutations

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 · UW Medicine Newsroom

Genome regulation of cell type cataloged in mouse at single-cell level

Aug-18 · Genome Biology

Investigating enhancer evolution with massively parallel reporter assays

Aug-18 · HHMI News

Cell Atlas Reveals Landscape of Open Chromatin in 100,000 Cells

Mar-18 · EMBL

Chromatin usage in individual cells reveals developmental trajectories

Jan-18 · Nature Methods

Sophisticated barcoding approaches are transforming cell lineaging

2017

Dec-17 · GeekWire

UW, Seattle Children's and Fred Hutch launch $50M Institute for Precision Medicine

Dec-17 · The Seattle Times

Costco co-founder and boyhood friend give $50 million for precision medicine at UW

Dec-17 · PR Newswire

Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine Launches in Seattle

Sep-17 · Mendelspod

Exploring the Exome and the Future of Genomics with Jay Shendure

Sep-17 · Scientific American

One Test May Spot Cancer, Infections, Diabetes and More

Aug-17 · New York Times

A Speedier Way to Catalog Human Cells (All 37 Trillion of Them)

Jul-17 · Cell

Principles of Systems Biology, No. 19

Jul-17 · GeekWire

Biomedical labs at UW and in Boston win $10M grants from Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group

Jul-17 · Nature News

The trickiest family tree in biology

Jul-17 · Allen Institute

The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group Announces Allen Discovery Center at UW Medicine

Mar-17 · The Atlantic

The Game-Changing Technique That Cracked the Zika-Mosquito Genome

Mar-17 · The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group

Cracking the code of developmental biology

Feb-17 · Nature News

Secrets of life in a spoonful of blood

Feb-17 · NIH/NHGRI

NIH to expand critical catalog for genomics research

Jan-17 · GenomeWeb

Researchers Describe Methods for Sequencing Large Numbers of Single Cells

2016

Dec-16 · The New England Journal of Medicine

Tracking the Fate of Cells in Health and Disease

Oct-16 · UW News

DNA repeat stretches tied to cancer progression and survival

Sep-16 · GenomeWeb

CRISPR/Cas9 Deployed as Cellular Historian

Aug-16 · UW Medicine

Precision Medicine: Finding the Best Treatment for You

Jul-16 · ScienceDaily

Size matters: Advance could increase sensitivity of liquid biopsies

Jun-16 · BioTechniques

Tracing Cell Lineages with CRISPR/Cas

Jun-16 · HHMI News

New Technique Helps Researchers Determine Developmental Origins of Cells

May-16 · The Atlantic

Using CRISPR to Learn How a Body Builds Itself

May-16 · BBC World Service

Gene Barcoding

May-16 · BBC News

DNA 'tape recorder' to trace cell history

May-16 · Science

Genome editor CRISPR helps trace growth of embryos—and maybe cancer next

Mar-16 · Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Prostate cancer study provides impetus for precision medicine

Feb-16 · NIH Director's Blog

A New Tool in the Toolbox: New Method Traces Free-Floating DNA Back to Its Source

Jan-16 · New York Times

Searching for Cancer Maps in Free-Floating DNA

Jan-16 · UW News

New blood test may expand scope of liquid biopsies

2015

Oct-15 · The Atlantic

Taking the Uncertainty Out of Genetic Screening for Cancer Risk

Oct-15 · UW News

Researchers win $12-million to study the human genome in 4-D

Jun-15 · Cell

One Cell at a Time

Jun-15 · Biotechniques

Scientists Develop a Method to Define Chromatin States in Tens of Thousands of Cells

May-15 · Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute

HHMI Selects 26 of the Nation's Top Biomedical Scientists

Apr-15 · Seattle Times

UW experts shed light on false positives in prenatal tests

Mar-15 · NIH News

NIH forms team of experts to chart course for the President's Precision Medicine Initiative research network

Jan-15 · Chemistry World

Protein mutant libraries to probe diseases' genetic link quickly and cheaply

2014

Aug-14 · NIH News

NIH awards $14.5 million to research groups studying newest DNA sequencing techniques

Jul-14 · Cell

Guiding Philsophies for Running a Lab

Jul-14 · HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

Pioneer in Next Generation Sequencing Receives 2014 HudsonAlpha Life Sciences Prize

Jul-14 · Cell

Cell 40th Anniversary 40-under-40

Apr-14 · The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation

Allen Distinguished Investigators Lineage Barcode Focus 2014

Apr-14 · Simons Foundation

Statistical model rates billions of human mutations

Mar-14 · Medscape

What's Next in Prenatal Genetic Testing?

Feb-14 · NIH Director's Blog

Creative Minds: Interpreting Your Genome

2013

Oct-13 · Federa (Dutch)

FederaPrijs to developer of groundbreaking DNA analysis

Sep-13 · NIH News

NIH Announces 2013 High-Risk, High-Reward Research Awards

Sep-13 · Nature

Next-generation sequencing: The genome jigsaw

Aug-13 · New York Times

A Family Consents to a Medical Gift, 62 Years Later

Aug-13 · KUOW Weekday

What Caused Henrietta Lacks' Aggressive Cancer?

Aug-13 · Nature

Biospecimen policy: Family matters

Apr-13 · Technology Review

10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2013: Prenatal DNA Sequencing

2012

Dec-12 · CNN

Danger meets discovery: Top 10 science stories of 2012

Dec-12 · USA Today

Top 10: Science studies cited in 2012

Dec-12 · Nature Medicine

Notable Advances 2012

Jul-12 · American Society of Human Genetics

ASHG Honors Dr. Jay Shendure with Curt Stern Award for 2012

Jun-12 · Science Friday

Unraveling the Genome Sequence of the Unborn

Jun-12 · KUOW 94.9 (The Conversation)

UW Prenatal Test Could Replace Amniotic Fluid Testing

Jun-12 · Los Angeles Times

Entire DNA of fetus revealed through risk-free testing

Jun-12 · NBC Nightly News

Testing saliva for genetic makeup

Jun-12 · New York Times

DNA Blueprint for Fetus Built Using Tests of Parents

Jun-12 · NPR

Are Fetal DNA Tests A Key To Pandora's Box?

May-12 · HHMI Bulletin

Exome Sequencing: Opening the Flood Gates

Apr-12 · New York Times

Scientists Link Gene Mutation to Autism Risk

2010

Dec-10 · Times of India

Gujarati woman becomes first Indian to have genes mapped

2009

Nov-09 · Nature News

Selective sequencing solves a genetic mystery

Sep-09 · In Sequence

Exome Project Paper Shows Exon Sequencing's Potential for Rare Disease Research

Sep-09 · Forbes

Cheap DNA Sequencing

Aug-09 · NIH (NHLBI)

NIH-Funded Researchers Sequence Exomes of 12 People

2006

Oct-06 · Technology Review

TR35: The $1,000 genome

2005

Aug-05 · New York Times

2 New Methods to Sequence DNA Promise Vastly Lower Costs

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