by Chris Tachibana | Jun 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
For the New York Times, Wudan Yan reports on an unusual way to clean up a Superfund site contaminated with carcinogens: Phytoremediation with microbiome-boosted trees. Wudan (@wudanyan) talks with a University of Washington plant microbiologist who discovered the set...
by Chris Tachibana | Sep 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
In the New Yorker, Wudan Yan has a piece about travel—not of people but of our intestinal bacteria. Wudan profiles biologists following microbes around Fiji and reports surprising findings about the genes bacteria http://www.laviagraes.com/tipos-de-viagra-naturales...
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 4, 2013 | ScienceWire
You’ve heard the talk show jokes. Now let Carol Ostrom of the Seattle Times explain the science behind fecal microbiota transplants, or as Carol (@costrom) states in plain language: poop transplants. Once your inner nine-year-old stops giggling, check out the variety...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 3, 2013 | ScienceWire
The microbes in and on your body might be more important for health than your genes. Mindy Miner reports on womens’ personal biodiversity and bacterial vaginosis, in a story about research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division....
