Seinfeld: Guidance, Not Handcuffs

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KPLU’s Keith Seinfeld, while dodging anarchists in downtown Seattle, managed to talk with Dr. Donald Berwick, former Chief of Medicare and Medicaid, about health care and politics. Berwick was in town to deliver Group [ ...more ]

Weeks and Adler: Students CAN Write

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Think students can’t write and don’t get science? NWABR, the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research begs to differ. The 2012 winning entries in their annual “Biomedical Breakthroughs and My Life” essay contest show that 7th [ ...more ]

Long: Your Hidden Pets

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Priscilla Long reminds us what we might have forgotten about spiders from basic biology class or Charlotte’s Web. They aren’t insects, they inspired Greek and Roman myths, and they motivate us (or at least Priscilla) to [ ...more ]

Doughton: Shot in the Arm

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What happened to the stimulus? Sandi Doughton, Seattle Times science reporter and NSWA board member, looks at what Washington State scientists did with their stimulus money, including improving prosthetic legs, buying electron microscopes, and studying back [ ...more ]

Tachibana: Shows Northwest Life Science Favoritism

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Pullman gets a little love in this article on West Coast life science hubs, thanks to Chris Rivera of the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association. He gave me the global health angle and pointed me east [ ...more ]