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Bianca Nogrady

Bianca Nogrady is a freelance science journalist and author who is yet to meet a piece of research she doesn't find fascinating. In addition to The Scientist, her words have appeared in outlets including Nature, The Atlantic, Wired UK, The Guardian, Undark, MIT Technology Review, and the BMJ. She is also author of Climate Change: How We Can Get To Carbon Zero, The End: The Human Experience Of Death, editor of the 2019 and 2015 Best Australian Science Writing anthologies, and coauthor of The Sixth Wave: How To Succeed In A Resource-Limited World. She is based in Sydney, Australia.

Articles by Bianca Nogrady

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Mother’s Circadian Rhythms Mirrored in Fetal Rat Brains

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Human Gut Bacteria Show Up in Urban Wildlife

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Great Barrier Reef Suffers Sixth Mass Bleaching in Two Decades

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Growing Evidence Ties COVID-19 to Diabetes Risk

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Biotech Tries Manipulating the Skin Microbiome

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Flooding and Storms Wreak Havoc for Australian Scientists

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Pandemic Amplifies Postdoc Struggles

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Gut Microbiome May Help or Hinder Defenses Against SARS-CoV-2

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How Early-Morning Light Exposure Makes Mice Less Depressed

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Australian Research Faces Impending Scarcity of Lab Rodents

Mice Plague Eastern Australia in Record Numbers

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World’s Largest Sand Island Devastated by Wildfire

Natural Killer Cell Therapies Catch Up to CAR T

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How SARS-CoV-2 Tests Work and What’s Next in COVID-19 Diagnostics

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Scientists Take Stock of Australian Wildlife Devastated by Fires

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Study Confirms Safety of Genetically Modified T Cells

A long-term study of nearly 800 patients demonstrated a strong safety profile for T cells engineered with viral vectors.

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Detecting Residual Cell Line-Derived DNA with Droplet Digital PCR

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Characterizing Immune Memory to COVID-19 Vaccination

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