SAN DIEGO, CA – May 24, 2010 -- Researchers from Italy have found a statistically significant association between enteroviral infection and diagnosis of type-1 diabetes in children. They report their findings today at the 110th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in San Diego, California.

Washington, April 29, 2010 – Practicing non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as hand-washing and mouth covering may help limit the transmission of the pandemic flu, but more research on these measures is critical according to a new study appearing in the May issue of AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (APIC).

I posed this topic to my eighth grade biology students last year.  An understanding of what is or is not alive is central to the study of biology.  To examine this tricky topic, we borrowed a technique called structured controversy, which the students used in their history class.  Each student researched the question and wrote down their main points as homework.  In class, the debate had 3 steps: