by Chris Tachibana | Jun 29, 2017 | ScienceWire
Think “multidisciplinary” is just a science buzzword? Genevieve Wanucha’s story about a gene linked to Alzheimer’s disease follows a discovery from bioinformatics, to transgenic model organisms, to postmortem human brains. Genevieve is at the...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 29, 2017 | ScienceWire
Rick Ells tells a modern story about evolution in his review of The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner. Read Rick’s summary about scientists measuring the changes that Darwin noted in finches, then peruse the rest of his blog to fill up your reading list....
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 29, 2017 | ScienceWire
Effective vaccines against the shifty influenza virus are hard to come by. Ian Haydon writes about a new anti-flu tactic. Protein designers at the University of Washington have created a protein that theoretically sticks to the flu virus more tightly than our own...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 29, 2017 | ScienceWire
In an interview she tweeted was the pinnacle of her career 🙂, Rachel Tompa interviews Alice Waters for Hutch News. Why was the superstar chef and activist and founder of restaurant Chez Panisse at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center? To talk about lifelong...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
Tom Rickey’s headline doesn’t lie: His news story and video for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory tells how researchers are converting methane, including from cow pies, to energy-rich slime. The goo can be a liquid or turned into a semisolid,...
