by Susan Keown | Oct 11, 2023 | ScienceWire
How do migrating birds learn their routes? Rebecca Heisman (@r_heisman) reports for Hakai Magazine that, for at least some birds, social learning plays a major role. She discusses new research on a migrating shorebird, the black-tailed godwit, that proves this...
by Susan Keown | Oct 11, 2023 | ScienceWire
Pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV infection — aka PrEP — is very effective, writes Chris Tachibana (@ChrisTachibana), but only a quarter of eligible Americans take it, and uptake is lower in particular groups. In her piece for the University of Pennsylvania...
by Susan Keown | Oct 11, 2023 | ScienceWire
Heidi Ledford (@heidiledford) recently explained the legacy of Dolly the cloned sheep for Nature. Although CRISPR is now the technique of choice for genome editing, researchers still use somatic cell nuclear transfer to clone animals. In this technique, scientists...
by Susan Keown | Oct 11, 2023 | ScienceWire
For NASA’s Earth Observatory, Lindsey Doermann writes about new research showing that our oceans are turning more green. Caused by growth of phytoplankton, this shift was predicted by climate-change models, although researchers can’t yet pinpoint the specific...
by Susan Keown | Sep 2, 2023 | ScienceWire
Writing for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Diane Mapes (@double_whammied) explains why cancer disrupts sleep and what cancer patients can do to regain good sleep if they find themselves tossing and turning all night. She talks to an expert about the health benefits of...
by Susan Keown | Sep 2, 2023 | ScienceWire
In GeekWire, Charlotte Schubert (@schubertcm) takes us inside Seattle companies that are using new AI tools to generate protein designs, spun out from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. Proteins are the workhorse molecules of the body and are...
