Huttenlocher Lab – UW

Best wishes to Jayne Squirrell on her retirement. The lab will miss you!

These immune cells won Nobel fame — can they solve autoimmune disease? October 7, 2025
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03287-yRegulatory T cells, which help to dampen inflammation, are being used in clinical trials against ailments such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Customizable AI systems that anyone can adapt bring big opportunities — and even bigger risks October 7, 2025
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03228-9Open and adaptable artificial-intelligence models are crucial for scientific progress, but robust safeguards against their misuse are still nascent.
Groundbreaking quantum-tunnelling experiments win physics Nobel October 7, 2025
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03194-2John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis discovered quantum physics on a macroscopic scale, paving the way for quantum computing.
The rise of ‘nightmare bacteria’: antimicrobial resistance in five charts October 7, 2025
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03218-xData reveal how the global challenge to reduce deaths and infections from drug-resistant bacteria is not going according to plan.
Incentives accelerate progress on open access in Spain October 7, 2025
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03276-1Incentives accelerate progress on open access in Spain
Microbe discovery holds promise for sustainable biotechnology October 7, 2025
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03278-zMicrobe discovery holds promise for sustainable biotechnology
The 1975 discovery of long-lost letters between Albert Einstein and the astronomer Willem de Sitter October 7, 2025
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02978-wLively scientific debates found in correspondence from 1916 to 1918, and Saint Patrick’s snake-banishment skills are called into question in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.
The EU’s Horizon research fund needs to stay a defence-free zone October 7, 2025
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03221-2It is time to sound the alarm as the EU’s research priorities face an unprecedented degree of political interference.
Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it October 7, 2025
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03196-0Scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices.
Insect biodiversity monitoring must be expanded October 7, 2025
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03107-3Insect biodiversity monitoring must be expanded