by Susan Keown | Mar 4, 2022 | ScienceWire
Mark Harris (@meharris) coauthored a feature in IEEE Spectrum about retinal implants created by the company Second Sight that have been installed inside the eyes of more than 350 people, providing a crude artificial vision to people who otherwise cannot see. But...
by Susan Keown | Mar 4, 2022 | ScienceWire
Charlotte Schubert (@schubertcm) writes for GeekWire about the legacy of cellular therapy company Juno Therapeutics (now a Bristol Myers Squibb company) on the Seattle biotech scene (and beyond). The Seattle company launched in 2013, bolstering the region’s reputation...
by Susan Keown | Mar 4, 2022 | ScienceWire
For the Everett Herald, Julia-Grace Sanders (@sanders_julia) wrote a series in May 2021, “Our Fault,” focused on the terrible damage that would be inflicted throughout the Seattle metro region by an earthquake along the relatively little-studied Southern Whidbey...
by Susan Keown | Feb 3, 2022 | ScienceWire
Wayt Gibbs (@WaytGibbs) contributed original reporting and editing to a new book, “Autism by the Numbers: Explaining its Apparent Rise,” published by Spectrum and free to read online. The book explores the puzzling and dramatic recent rise in autism prevalence around...
by Susan Keown | Feb 3, 2022 | ScienceWire
Wudan Yan (@wudanyan) received an honorable mention in NSWA’s 2021 Best of the Northwest Science Writing Awards (journalism award) for her April 2021 story in The Atlantic about how pandemic travel restrictions have affected researchers who typically conduct fieldwork...
by Susan Keown | Feb 3, 2022 | ScienceWire
New member Ian Rose (@ianrosewrites) writes for Earth Island Journal about an alarming decline of the iconic bigleaf maple in Washington state. All over the state, people had been reporting trees losing leaves or simply just dying, and the reason for the devastation...