by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
Honeybee colony collapse, Sylvia Kantor @kantors discovers, might be halted by mycologists as well as entomologists. In a story for Crosscut, Sylvia talks with a mushroom expert and a Washington State University bee researcher who are finding compounds from mushrooms,...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
Sandra Ripley Distelhorst has a first-author Lancet Oncology paper on optimizing breast cancer care in low- and middle-income countries. The comprehensive summary lays out the latest recommendations from the Breast Health Global Initiative, co-sponsored by Fred...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
The European Union, says Kris Freeman, wants its members to join together in harmony, at least when sharing health data. In Environmental Health Perspectives, Kris writes that data from 17 countries can be combined to study exposure patterns to compounds such as...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
In New York Times Magazine, Bonnie Rochman @brochman tells of taking her 10-year-old daughter to For Girls Only, a facts-of-life class for preteens and their parents.Embarrassment ensues, quickly followed by laughs, then frank questions from the girls, with honest,...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 2, 2015 | ScienceWire
Kristen Woodward and Andrea Detter celebrate 1975, when Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center first opened its doors. Kristen, Andrea, and the rest of the team that produces the Hutch’s quarterly newsletter Quest created a beautiful Winter 2015 commemorative issue...
