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Scientific Publications

One of my articles also appears in The Craft of Science Writing.

 

Features


Science

Lost in Translation” (Web version: “AI often mangles African languages. Local scientists and volunteers are taking it back to school“) – 21 July 2023

Science podcast related to the feature


MIT Technology Review

A Divided Defense” (Web version: “The quest to show that biological sex matters in the immune system“) – 15 August 2022


The New York Times

Here Come the Artificial Intelligence Nutritionists” – 14 March 2022


TIME/TIME Health

What the Science Says About the Health Benefits of Vitamins and Supplements” – 28 April 2022

The Link Between Type 2 Diabetes and Psychiatric Disorders” – 10 March 2022

A Gut Check for Better Aging” – Summer 2021

Immunity Starts in the Gut” – Winter 2021

 

Nature

Promotion pathways: how scientists can chart their industry career trajectory” – 18 September 2023

Five ways deep learning has transformed image analysis” – 20 September 2022

Embryo-like models shed fresh light on early human development” – 16 December 2021

Smartphone science: apps test and track infectious diseases” – 10 May 2021

Core curriculum: learning to manage a shared microscopy facility” – 08 December 2020

How DIY technologies are democratizing science” – 17 November 2020

Got mutation? ‘Base editors’ fix genomes one nucleotide at a time” – 18 November 2019

Turning discarded DNA into ecology gold” – 25 June 2019

 

The Scientist Magazine

Building a Silicon Brain” – 1 May 2019

 

Nature

How artificial intelligence is helping to prevent blindness” – 11 April 2019

 

The Scientist Magazine

Gene Editing Could One Day Treat Muscle Disorders” – 30 August 2018

 

Science News for Students

World’s deepest zoo harbors clues to extraterrestrial life” – 15 June 2017

 

PBS NOVA Next

The Secret Lives of Ants” – 15 March 2017

 

The Open Notebook

Feeling Like a Fraud: The Impostor Phenomenon in Science Writing” – 15 November 2016

 

Ars Technica

This tiny brain parasite seems to make rodents braver—and it likes humans, too” – 24 October 2016

 

The Scientist Magazine

What Sensory Receptors Do Outside of Sense Organs” – 1 September 2016

 

Smithsonian

Inner Earth Is Teeming With Exotic Forms of Life” – 29 February 2016

 

Science Careers

Getting Credit for Peer Review” – 8 February 2016

 

TakePart

If Monsoons Were Not Extreme Enough Weather for You, You’re In for a Treat” – 17 July 2015

 

Wired

The 3D Future of Sound” – 22 April 2015

 

The Verge

Harvesting the clouds: how to make water out of fog” – 8 December 2014

 

San Jose Mercury News

Hurting? Being in love can help take away your pain” – 13 February 2011

 

Science Notes

Lizard Family Ties” – Summer 2011

 

Science Illustrated magazine

How are we Wired?” – March/April 2010

Energy Locked in Ice” – November/December 2009

 

News Stories


The Scientist Magazine

Integrating Multiple -Omics in Individual Cells” – 1 October 2018

New Methods to Detect CRISPR Off-Target Mutations” – 1 March 2018

Discovering Novel Antibiotics” – 1 February 2017


PNAS Front Matter

Inner Workings: Bacteria work together to survive Earth’s depths” – 31 January 2017

Inner Workings: Tiny organisms could reveal how animals evolved” – 16 November 2016

Inner Workings: Coral reefs at a tipping point” – 10 May 2016

Journal Club: How to find the rare, disease-resistant individuals who could help forge new therapies” – 11 April 2016

Inner Workings: Filming chimpanzee gestures” – 11 February 2013


BioTechniques

A New Window to the Underwater World” – 9 November 2016

A New Star in the Fight Against Multidrug-resistant Bacteria” – 14 October 2016

RNA Sequencing Rapidly Maps the Brain” – 19 September 2016

Tracking Protein Dynamics in Single Living Neurons” – 6 July 2016

Differentiated Cells Regain the Ability to Grow Like Stem Cells” – 4 April 2016

How Animals Became Multicellular” – 16 March 2016

Using Lasers to Weld Neurons Together” – 8 March 2016

Building Computers Within Cells” – 24 February 2016

Watching Fertilized Embryos Develop in Real Time” – 2 February 2016

A Drug to Stay Young Longer” – 18 January 2016

Eliminating CRISPR-Cas9’s Off-target Effects” – 13 January 2016

It’s All in the Tip: A New Way to Study Membrane Receptors” – 2 December 2016


Motherboard

Insect-Inspired Vision Helps These Tiny Robots Fly” – 17 June 2014


National Geographic News

When It Comes to Echolocation, Some Bats Just Wing It” – 4 December 2014

Wasp Bores Into Fruit With Metallic “Drill Bit”” – 28 May 2014

World’s First Female “Penis” Found, in Cave-Dwelling Bugs” – 17 April 2014

Washington Mudslide’s Speed Led to High Death Toll” – 27 March 2014

Extinct Porpoise Found to Be First Mammal With Major Underbite” – 13 March 2014

Crazy Ants Smear Acid Over Themselves to Survive Fire Ants” – 13 February 2014

Bumblebees Can Fly Higher Than Mount Everest, Scientists Find” – 4 February 2014

Good News for Bats? Species Bouncing Back in Europe” – 29 January 2014

Dinosaur Fossil With Fleshy Rooster’s Comb Is First of Its Kind” – 12 December 2013

Turkey’s New Undersea Tunnel Is Built to Resist Earthquakes” – 4 November 2013

Left or Right Tail Wags Elicit Different Emotional Responses From Dogs” – 31 October 2013

African Elephants Understand Human Gestures” – 10 October 2013

New Species of Spiny Rat Found on Indonesian Island” – 24 September 2013


Wired Science

Tiny Silicon Chip Uses Quantum Physics to Slow Light Down” – 14 January 2011


Nature

Underwater robot can follow marine organisms over record distances” – 1 November 2010


San Jose Mercury News

Virtual dissection table gets classroom test run” – 21 June 2011

Women brave the needles in hopes of having children” – 15 June 2011

Schools warn kids need shot by the fall” – 30 May 2011

Bionic legs help paralyzed patient walk at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center” – 25 May 2011

Bedbug reports increase in Santa Clara County” – 12 May 2011

Virus kills crow, raising concerns about West Nile” – 30 April 2011

Girls will make up 45 percent of teams in 2011 Tech Challenge” – 29 April 2011

Schools brace for Whooping Cough” – 25 April 2011

County struggles to bring down high TB rate” – 24 April 2011

Students will get to see best of Washington D.C. after all” – 9 April 2011

Bless you, gesundheit, salud:It’s allergy season!” – 6 April 2011

Water is abundant, so drought is over” – 30 March 2011


The Loh Down on Science

Wrote a script that was played on “Loh Down on Science” radio show – Summer 2011


Santa Cruz Sentinel

(The article has also appeared in several other newspapers in the U.S. and Canada after being picked up by the McClatchy-Tribune wire)

Study Shows People in Love Feel Less Pain” – 6 January 2011


Mongabay.com

It’s not just size that matters: how population affects climate change” – 11 November 2010


The Salinas Californian newspaper

A number of general assignment clips, no longer available online. Email me if you’d like to take a look at PDF versions, I can’t upload them for copyright reasons.

Popular Science magazine

Overachievers We Love” – August 2010

Out of Our Element” – June 2010

FYI: Could an Asteroid Impact Knock the Moon into the Earth?” – May 2010

Headlines: The All-Seeing Border” – April 2010

Megapixels: Light Touch” – April 2010

Headlines: Fire Escape” – March 2010

Headlines: Sweet Sensor” – March 2010

How it Works: Paper, Revised” – March 2010

Megapixels: Coincidence or Consequence?” – March 2010

Megapixels: Tunnel Vision” – February 2010

Your Guide to the Year in Science 2010: Births and Deaths” – January 2010

Your Guide to the Year in Science 2010: Life After Death?” – January 2010

FYI: Can microwave technology be used to make food cold?” – January 2010

Megapixels: Mind the Gap” – January 2010

FYI: Why don’t loud snorers wake themselves up?” – December 2009


SPECTRUM

Autism symptoms emerge in infancy, sibling study finds” – 6 April 2010


Science Illustrated magazine

The Strength to Live” – July/August 2010

The Superstarvers” – July/August 2010

DNA Daredevils” – March/April 2010

Robots on the Job” – January/February 2010

A Liquid Beginning” – January/February 2010


PopSci.com

Interview: NASA Scientist’s Plan to Extract Moon Water Affordably Using Microwaves” – 29 October 2009

NASA’s Messenger Flyby Captures Never-Before-Seen Images of Mercury” – 02 October 2009

Drinking Alcohol May Make Head Injuries Less Harmful” – 22 September 2009

Newest Lightbulb Tech Combines Advantages of Incandescent, Fluorescent, and LED” – 18 September 2009

Fungus-Infected Violin Beats Stradivarius in Listening Test” – 17 September 2009

A Squirt of Stem Cell Gel Heals Brain Injuries” – 4 September 2009

Ant-Sized Microbots Travel in Swarms” – 31 August 2009


Other Publications


Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Profile of Rene Bernards” – 4 March 2024

QnAs with Eugenia Russinova” – 31 January 2024

Profile of Andreas J. Baumler” – 4 December 2023

QnAs with David M. Knipe” – 13 November 2023

QnAs with Nikolaus Grigorieff” – 25 July 2023

Profile of Luis A. Borrero” – 25 July 2023

Profile of Lalita Ramakrishnan” – 13 June 2023

QnAs with Michael L. Dustin” – 18 April 2023

Profile of David Card” – 4 April 2023

Profile of Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado: Winner of the 2023 Vilcek Prize in biomedical science” – 28 March 2023

Profile of Francis Nimmo” – 21 March 2023

Profile of Yi Cui” – 7 March 2023

QnAs with Geerat J. Vermeij” – 31 January 2023

Profile of Krzysztof Palczewski” – 8 November 2022

QnAs with Richard O. Hynes, Erkki Ruoslahti, and Timothy A. Springer: Winners of the 2022 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award” – 4 October 2022

Profile of Nieng Yan” – 16 August 2022

Profile of Paul G. Falkowski” – 2 August 2022

QnAs with John T. Schiller” – 18 July 2022

QnAs with David H. Raulet” – 7 June 2022

Profile of Gisela Storz” – 3 May 2022

QnAs with Renu Malhotra” – 25 April 2022

Profile of Ana Maria Cuervo” – 20 April 2022

Profile of Lynn Nadel” – 19 April 2022

Profile of Kazuo Shinozaki” – 15 March 2022

Profile of Jonathan L. Sessler” – 1 March 2022

QnAs with David Van Essen” – 8 February 2022

QnAs with Matthew V. Tirrell” – 28 December 2021

Profile of John R. Speakman” – 3 August 2021

Profile of Patrick Cramer” – 27 July 2021

QnAs with Sean J. Morrison” – 22 June 2021

QnAs with Clare M. Waterman” – 8 June 2021

QnAs with Michael Reth” – 20 April 2021

QnAs with Kenneth W. Kinzler” – 23 March 2021

Profile of James H. Hurley” – 16 March 2021

Profile of Se-Jin Lee” – 30 November 2020

Profile of Subra Suresh” – 13 October 2020

Profile of Edward H. Egelman” – 1 September 2020

QnAs with Sharad Goel and Allison Koenecke” – 1 September 2020

QnAs with Mark T. Nelson” – 25 August 2020

QnAs with Mikhail D. Lukin” – 30 June 2020

QnAs with Zachary B. Lippman” – 30 June 2020

Profile of Christopher A. Walsh” – 23 June 2020

QnAs with John Kutzbach” – 27 January 2020

QnAs with Roger J. Davis” – 24 January 2020

QnAs with Sheng Yang He” – 11 November 2019

QnAs with Günter P. Wagner” – 30 September 2019

Profile of David D. Ginty” – 18 June 2019

QnAs with Mitchell A. Lazar” – 18 June 2019

QnAs with Alexander Levitzki” – 11 June 2019

QnAs with C. Y. Cyrus Chu” – 2 April 2019

QnAs with Steven A. Kliewer” – 27 November 2018

Profile of Julian I. Schroeder” – 15 October 2018

Profile of Yuval Peres” – 7 September 2018

QnAs with John E. Cronan” – 3 July 2018

QnAs with Lia Addadi” – 2 July 2018

QnAs with Rafael Radi” – 29 May 2018

Profile of Steve Granick” – 22 January 2018

Profile of Scott W. Lowe” – 16 January 2018

QnAs with Pardis Sabeti” – 8 September 2017

QnAs with Joe Lutkenhaus” – 8 August 2017

Profile of Matthew O. Jackson” – 25 July 2016

Profile of Paul Shulze-Lefert” – 14 January 2014

Profile of Peter Novick” – 7 January 2014

Profile of Bruce A. Beutler” – 15 July 2013

QnAs with Detlef Weigel” – 9 July 2013

PNAS Classic Profile: Barbara McClintock and the discovery of jumping genes” – 11 December 2012

QnAs with Charles F. Stevens” – 11 September 2012

QnAs with Shu Chien” – 19 June 2012

Profile of Lee D. Ross” – 8 May 2012

QnAs with Richard T. Durrett” – 21 February 2012

PNAS Classic Profile: Paul Greengard: Signals underlying moods, addictions, and brain disorders” – 22 November 2011

Wrote weekly article summaries for the journal’s “In This Issue” section and tipsheet, and created and edited PNAS Science Sessions podcasts

 

American Academy of Ophthalmology

Regular articles for Ophthalmology Journal‘s This Issue at a Glance section and occasional articles for Ophthalmic News & Education Network – 2018 – present

Peer Profile: Carol Shields” – 15 October 2016

Peer Profile: Felipe Medeiros” – 29 July 2016

 

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Research connects specific variations in RNA splicing with breast cancer causation” – 1 October 2015

Scientists sequence genome of worm that can regrow body parts, seek stem cell insights” – 21 September 2015

Surprised? Cholinergic neurons send brain-wide broadcasts enabling us to learn from the unexpected” – 27 August 2015

An immune system marker for therapy-resistant prostate cancer” – 04 June 2015

Tumor surroundings are shown to affect progression of different cancer subtypes” – 27 May 2015

Tumor cells that mimic blood vessels could help breast cancer spread to other sites” – 8 April 2015

Twin copies of a gene pair up in embryonic stem cells at a critical moment in their differentiation” – 3 March 2015

 

George Washington University School of Medicine

Addressing Global Mental Health Issues Across Town and Around the World” – Fall 2016

Neuromodulation for Treating Depression” – Fall 2015

Clock Management” – Winter 2014-15

 

Stanford News Service

Do snails need their slime trails to move ahead? It’s a sticky question, Stanford researchers say” – 6 April 2011

New Stanford Nano Center provides state-of-the-art equipment for research at the smallest of scales” – 23 March 2011

Stanford researchers find that modern humans originated in southern Africa” – 7 March 2011

Stanford professor wins million-dollar Dan David Prize” – 3 March 2011

Stanford researchers develop new technology for cheaper, more efficient solar cells” – 20 February 2011

Stanford researchers study how disordered proteins spread from cell to cell, potentially spreading neurodegenerative disease” – 18 February 2011

Stanford researchers develop wireless technology for faster, more efficient communication networks” – 14 February 2011

The brain knows what the nose smells, but how? Stanford researchers trace the answer” – 2 February 2011

 

Discovery, a newsletter of the Institute of Human Virology

IHV Researchers Hunt for an Infectious Cause of Some Human lung Cancers” – Winter/Spring 2010

New Peptides Could lead to Better Anti-Cancer Therapies” – Winter/Spring 2010

A Lassa Fever Vaccine is Safe Even in Immunocompromised Animals” – Fall 2009

Conspiracy Beliefs Can Affect Treatment of People with HIV” – Fall 2009

A Compelling New Mechanism for HIV Cellular Entry” – Summer 2009

 

Stanford Magazine

Should you put your computer to sleep?” – May/June 2009

 

‘Ask a Geneticist’ column, The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA

If people get some genes from their mom and some genes from their dad, do you have some of your own genes?” – 2 September 2009

I’ve read that humans gained about 200cc of brain capacity some 100,000 years ago. Is this true? Also, how did human brains get to be so big?” – 11 December 2008

Can stem cells help one with liver cancer?” – 25 September 2008

What is a mutated gene?” – 14 August 2008


Stanford Scientific magazine

Identification of Virulence Factors for Toxoplasmosis” – Spring 2007


The Cornell Daily Sun newspaper

Riders Finish Second at Skidmore” – November 24, 2002

Crews Satisfied With Fall Season Results” – November 18, 2002

 

Scientific Publications