by Aiden Tuan | Dec 29, 2025 | ScienceWire
From new member Allessandra DiCorato, a story about a scientist diving deeper into the immune system in our nasal passages. During COVID, the race against the virus had been between countries, labs, and researchers to find out how the pathogen affected humans and more...
by Aiden Tuan | Mar 27, 2025 | ScienceWire
Flu season is here, Bonnie Rochman writes, and among the initial reports of cases, it’s shaping up to be one of the busiest flu seasons in recent history. In their piece for Fred Hutch Cancer Center, local hospitals saw an increase in the number of patients with the...
by Susan Keown | Sep 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
For VOA, Elise Cutts (@EliseCutts) explains vaccine-derived poliovirus — implicated in the recent outbreak in New York — and lays out the risks and benefits of the two forms of vaccine: inactivated polio vaccine, which is used in the U.S., and the oral polio vaccine,...
by Chris Tachibana | Aug 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Sharon Bertsch McGrayne’s new book, A Lab of One’s Own: One Woman’s Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science, co-authored with Dr. Rita Colwell, is available now. Dr. Colwell, a University of Washington graduate, is the former director of the National...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
For the New Yorker, Elizabeth Eaves reports on a risky decision: relocating a major high-containment government biosafety lab from an isolated island to the middle of Kansas. We’re building more labs to study new pathogens, writes Elisabeth in the piece produced with...
