Stem Cells: The Hype and the Hope
Hope is at an all-time high around the potential of stem cells to cure disease. The first clinical trial using induced pluripotent stem cells to... Read More
“One Test to Rule Them All”: Joe DeRisi in Conversation with Carl Zimmer
Joe DeRisi never rests in his pursuit of new technologies for finding and fighting mystery diseases. As a teen in the 1980s, DeRisi watched the... Read More
Progress, Pitfalls, and Prospects: An “Un-Lecture” on Cancer
The advances we have made in understanding cancer over the past decade have been so rapid and profound that clichés often attached to scientific process—revolution,... Read More
Conflicts of Interest for Freelance Science Journalists
As well-paid, freelance commissions in science journalism become harder to find, freelancers are supplementing their income by providing science writing services to the public and... Read More
Exploring and Managing Earth’s Microbiome
Cheap DNA sequencing has transformed the field of biology, revealing everything from the genetic drivers of cancer to the keys to human evolution. Today, scientists... Read More
Engineered Cells: The Medicines of Tomorrow
With the much-heralded success of the modified immune cells known as CAR-T cells in the treatment of leukemia, we’re growing accustomed to the idea that,... Read More
When Will Healthcare Reach Digital Nirvana?
Over the past decade, healthcare has gone from an information business whose backbone was the three-ring binder and the fax machine, to a digital business.... Read More
The Challenges of Covering Sexual Harassment in Science
Sexual harassment in science burst into the public spotlight when a series of major media stories revealed serious allegations against prominent scientists in astrophysics, anthropology,... Read More
Economic Inequality, Violence, and Life in a Changing Climate
If the global climate warms, how will this affect human societies around the world? Science fiction books and movies speculate about possible futures, but what... Read More
Rewriting the Code of Life
Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world against its use. Not, that is, until the... Read More