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....
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 3, 2013 | ScienceWire
Nothing says the the holidays like a NSWA member with a fried arachnid. David George Gordon as the Bug Chef whets the Thanksgiving appetite of New Yorkers and it’s all captured in an online slideshow. See David’s books for recipes (and of course, the science) of bugs,...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 3, 2013 | ScienceWire
Priscilla Long celebrates her second year of writing “Science Frictions” for The American Scholar with a link to so far. Browse the list to see how Priscilla started small with a column on the purpose of life (from the perspective of a hair mite) and ended 2012 with...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 3, 2013 | ScienceWire
The holidays are a chance to catch up on the year’s stack of magazines and newsletters. A gem from John Roach appears in a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin from 2012. John visits the labs and greenhouses of University of Washington researcher Keiko Torii, who...
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 6, 2012 | ScienceWire
Kate really is ill, says Laura Geggel in the New York Times Well blog. She’s not faking it and she’s not being a wimp. Laura talks to an obstetrics expert who, when she was pregnant, had the same condition as the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton. (Plus, a hint...
