Andrea Lius, PhD

Andrea Lius is an intern at The Scientist. She earned her PhD in pharmacology from the University of Washington. Besides science, she also enjoys writing short-form creative nonfiction.

Articles by Andrea Lius, PhD

3D rendering of a purple, double-stranded DNA with a few bases from one strand missing and about to be replaced by silver bases, signifying how prime editing allows editing of multiple nucleotides, unlike base editing, and doesn’t induce double-stranded break, unlike the first iteration of CRISPR.

Prime Editing Brings Precision and Breadth to Genome Editing

Andrea Lius, PhD | | 9 min read

Multiple dinosaurs walk across a lush valley landscape. Several pterosaur-like creatures roam the sky, and two trees frame the image, as a hill looms in the background.

Why Were Dinosaurs So Big?

Andrea Lius, PhD | | 5 min read

A grey tabby and white cat sits on a brown marbled floor, leaning to its side, in front of a yellow wall. Next to the cat sits an empty glass and a nearly empty bottle of brown liquid that seems like hard liquor. The cat’s eyes are half-open, with contracted pupils, making it seem, anthropomorphically, intoxicated.

Do Animals Get Drunk?

Andrea Lius, PhD | | 4 min read

A medical professional, wearing light grey scrubs and white laboratory gloves, immunizes a patient, wearing a blue T-shirt, on their right upper arm.

The Journey of Vaccines: From Smallpox to Cancer

Andrea Lius, PhD | | 6 min read

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Breast Cancer Cells Steal Mitochondria from Neurons to Fuel Metastasis

Andrea Lius, PhD | | 5 min read

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Gene Regulators, Not Genes, Underlie Hibernators’ Superpowers

Andrea Lius, PhD | | 3 min read

Leafcutter ants carry leaves across a small branch.

Neuropeptides Control Labor Division in Leafcutter Ants

Andrea Lius, PhD | | 5 min read

Tick on a leaf, seemingly reaching for a human leg nearby

Tick Troubles: Lyme Disease Persistence, Red Meat Allergy Spread, and Vaccine Development

Andrea Lius, PhD | | 4 min read

Three-dimensional rendering of minibinder molecules, represented as a red and light blue globular protein, as a soluble binder and expressed on the surface of a blue, spherical T cell, interacting with an orange-red, spiky, and vascular cancer cell.

An AI-Generated Protein Helps T Cells Kill Cancer

Andrea Lius, PhD | | 4 min read

3D rendering of transparent cells with zoomed in, double-stranded DNA molecule unraveling from blue, transparent chromosomes with orange telomeres.

Chromosomes in Focus: Origins, Genes, and Cancer

Andrea Lius, PhD | | 6 min read

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Regeneration Discovery May One Day Inform Hearing Loss Treatment

Andrea Lius, PhD | | 4 min read

A person’s left hand holding cotton bud in front of a tabletop equipment.

Earwax Can Indicate Parkinson’s Disease, Preliminary Study Finds

Andrea Lius, PhD | | 3 min read

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Image of a woman with her hands across her stomach. She has a look of discomfort on her face. There is a blown up image of her stomach next to her and it has colorful butterflies and gut bacteria all swarming within the gut.

November 2025, Issue 1

Why Do We Feel Butterflies in the Stomach?

These fluttering sensations are the brain’s reaction to certain emotions, which can be amplified or soothed by the gut’s own “bugs".

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Olga Anczukow and Ryan Englander discuss how transcriptome splicing affects immune system function in lung cancer.

Long-Read RNA Sequencing Reveals a Regulatory Role for Splicing in Immunotherapy Responses

Olga Anczukow and Ryan Englander discuss how transcriptome splicing affects immune system function in lung cancer.

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Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

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