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After seeing wild orcas for the first time when she was 18 years old, UW researcher Deborah Giles formed an immediate connection with the species and would eventually become one of the leading Southern Resident killer whale experts.

“I loved killer whales already, but just to see them in the wild, it’s just — there’s something special about it,” Giles said.

Giles is the science and research director of Wild Orca, a non-profit working toward the conservation of Southern Resident killer whales. She is also a resident scientist at UW’s Friday Harbor Laboratories and is currently teaching students in the spring marine studies program.

_{Photo: Courtesy of Deborah Giles}

Stimulating a small cluster of neurons in the brain appears to create a response in mice that mimics nociplastic pain, a type of unexplained chronic pain that can affect people, researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle have found.

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The parabrachial nucleus (red) relays sensory information from the body to different areas of the brain.}