A new study published online today in the journal Nature identifies 27 genes that, if mutated, will either cause autism or contribute to its risk. The study is the most comprehensive look at the genomes of parents and children where one child is ...

Oregon Health & Science University's Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute (OHSU) has been awarded a $10 million contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Kineta, Inc., ...

Oregon Health & Science University researchers have received a $25 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance work on a promising vaccine candidate that may someday prevent or cure infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. ...

The international Cochrane Collaboration — the world's leading organization for conducting systematic reviews on what works in health care — announced today that its new West Coast branch of the U.S. Cochrane Center will be at Oregon Health & Science ...

It is a data center unlike any other. It looks a bit like a lost spaceship, settled on a chunk of land at the edge of Beaverton, Oregon. It isn't that, exactly. But Oregon Health & Science University's new data center is a step into the future, in how ...

Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University have found there is no strong evidence to guide the use of antidepressants by women during pregnancy and just after birth. The findings come from a team led by Marian S. McDonagh, Pharm.D., professor of ...

Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University have found that a process called "somatic cell nuclear transfer" is much better and more accurate at reprogramming human skin cells to become embryonic stem cells — capable of transforming into any cell ...

Jeffrey Tyner, Ph.D., assistant professor of Cell & Developmental Biology for Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and a researcher with OHSU's Knight Cancer Institute, has won a distinguished award from the American Association for the ...

A new intervention improved the quality of transitional care but did not affect 30-day readmissions or emergency department use, according to an evaluation led by CHSE collaborator Honora Englander. CHSE analyst Benjamin Chan contributed to the ...

Researchers with Oregon Health & Science University's Vollum Institute have given science a new and unprecedented 3-D view of one of the most important receptors in the brain — a receptor that allows us to learn and remember, and whose dysfunction is ...