by Chris Tachibana | May 6, 2012 | ScienceWire
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 Health Research Institute’s annual Birnbaum...
by Chris Tachibana | May 6, 2012 | ScienceWire
Think students can’t write and don’t get science? NWABR, the begs to differ. The 2012 in their annual “Biomedical Breakthroughs and My Life” essay contest show that 7th and 8th graders get it, and can write about it. Want to get involved? Contact Reitha Weeks, program...
by Chris Tachibana | May 6, 2012 | ScienceWire
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 do housecleaning....
by Chris Tachibana | May 6, 2012 | ScienceWire
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 pain. She...
by Chris Tachibana | May 6, 2012 | ScienceWire
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 to WSU. San Francisco and San Diego are included but...
