#NSWASCIWIRE
Recent work by our members#nswasciwire highlights the published writing of NSWA members each month. Would you like to see your writing featured? Please suggest an item online or send a link or PDF file to Susan Keown at sciencewire@nwscience.org. The NSWA Board of Directors determines what material to present. We look forward to highlighting your work.
Tachibana: Shows Northwest Favoritism
Pullman gets a little love in this article on West Coast life science hubs, thanks to Chris Rivera of the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association. He gave me the global health angle and pointed me east to WSU. San Francisco and San Diego are included but...
Williams: One Hundred Years of Scottitude
David B. Williams uses the centennial of Robert F. Scott’s final journal entry to explain what is happening to the bodies of Scott and his team who froze to death near the South Pole in 1912. They are in a tent in a snow cairn that is slowly traveling toward the...
McCarthy: SCOTUS Watch
Get a sane, objective guide to the Obamacare Supreme Court case—what’s happened so far and what the ruling will mean when it comes in June—from Michael McCarthy, M.D. His web service, Seattle/LocalHealthGuide, gathers and presents this and other independent medical...
James: iTeam
iphone, iPad, iPS* cells, step aside for iGEM, writes Sally James for UW Today. The annual synthetic biology competition was won by a University of Washington team in 2011. (Wait, NSWA president Sally James does more than run NSWA, represent us, and arrange fabulous...
Bradbury: Occupy Science
Great project but no funding? Michael C. Bradbury, former NSWA board member, says take it to the people! In a story on crowdfunding research at his REALScience site, Bradbury uses video, photos and links to explain how scientists get grassroots funding for their...