When Washington lined up with 45 other states to receive its share of the $206 billion Master Tobacco Settlement Agreement in 1998, it received an extra $500 million. This "tobacco settlement bonus" is now being doled out to a few fortunate scientists in the state.
Despite the absence of a known cause, University of Washington researchers focus on autism prevention. It's an innovative, if somewhat controversial, approach.
Emboldened by the success of its mouse brain map [http://www.brain-map.org], Seattle's Allen Institute for Brain Science [http://www.alleninstitute.org] announced this week that it is taking on three new, similar "mapping" projects: the human brain, the developing mouse brain, and the mouse spinal c
