by Susan Keown | Oct 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
In her new book, “Hot Spot: How Seattle Became the Place for Infectious Disease Research,” Mary Engel (@Engel140) gives us the backstory for the Emerald City’s influential role in this field of study. Seattle scientists have made a name for themselves in the study of...
by Susan Keown | Oct 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
In Pacific NW Magazine, Sandi Doughton (@SandiDoughton) writes about Northwest Indigenous tribes are leading lamprey-restoration efforts via hatcheries and advocacy. The last century of dam-building, habitat destruction and even deliberate poisoning have inflicted...
by Susan Keown | Oct 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
Composting is catching on as a way to deal with human remains, writes Evan Bush (@evanbush) for NBC News. Five states have now passed laws permitting the eco-friendly funereal practice as an alternative to burial or cremation. And Washington state has made...
by Susan Keown | Oct 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
For New York Journal of Books, Adrienne Ross Scanlan reviews “Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet,” a nonfiction book by John W. Reid and Thomas E. Lovejoy about the megaforests that are crucial to both a healthy planetary climate and human cultures. She...
by Susan Keown | Sep 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
For VOA, Elise Cutts (@EliseCutts) explains vaccine-derived poliovirus — implicated in the recent outbreak in New York — and lays out the risks and benefits of the two forms of vaccine: inactivated polio vaccine, which is used in the U.S., and the oral polio vaccine,...
by Susan Keown | Sep 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
For Fred Hutch News Service, Sabrina Richards wrote a two-part series about how we are all peppered with cells bearing cancer-causing mutations … and yet, most of us are cancer-free. She looks at how cancer biologists came to better understand the complex processes,...
