by Susan Keown | Aug 21, 2024 | ScienceWire
New member David Ferris writes for Politico about how Georgians perceive electric vehicles, which are bringing manufacturing jobs to the state but have an image that’s heavily shaped by partisan political views. Once some of the most insatiable buyers of EVs in the...
by Susan Keown | Aug 21, 2024 | ScienceWire
For Fred Hutch News Service, Bonnie Rochman marks the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the role of EGFR gene mutations in lung cancer treatment with the story of a woman who has survived metastatic lung cancer for two decades thanks to the therapies the discovery...
by Susan Keown | Aug 21, 2024 | ScienceWire
Writing for the Society for Neuroscience’s Neuroscience Quarterly, Ellen Kuwana reports on what sleep does for us and how sex hormones play a role in sleep. New research in lab rodents details the role that estrogen plays on the neurons and gene networks involved in...
by Susan Keown | Aug 21, 2024 | ScienceWire
New research on the molecular mechanisms of inflammatory bowel disease points toward potential avenues for treatment, writes Heidi Ledford for Nature. IBD is a catch-all term for a variety of intestinal diseases involving chronic inflammation, with pain, diarrhea, and...
by Susan Keown | Aug 21, 2024 | ScienceWire
In a feature for High Country News, Sarah Trent writes about what happened to small farms in California after massive flooding in the winter of 2022-23 when a series of atmospheric rivers drenched the state. She takes us into the lives of two Hispanic families who run...
