Kamal Nahas

Kamal Nahas, PhD

Kamal is a freelance science journalist based in the UK with a PhD in virology from the University of Cambridge. He enjoys writing about the quirky side of biology, like the remarkable extent to which we depend on our gut bacteria, as well as technological breakthroughs, including how artificial intelligence can be leveraged to design proteins. His work has also appeared in Live Science, Nature, New Scientist, Science, Scientific American, and other places. Find him at www.kamalnahas.com or on X @KLNahas.

Articles by Kamal Nahas, PhD

Several white T cells attack a large red and yellow cancer cell.

The Innate Immune System’s Secret Weapon

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Archaea Inhabit Our Microbiome, but What Are They Doing There?

A robotic hand playing hopscotch over a keyboard to symbolize AI speeding up IND application filing.

IND Applications Are Tedious. Can AI Help?

A UMAP projection of a large transcriptomics dataset.

An AI Lab Partner Helps Sift Through Transcriptomics Data

An orange Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium with white flagella on a blue background.

Pseudomonas Bacteria Escape Immunity by Disrupting Energy Production in Macrophages

The Swedish bridge spider on a web over a blue background.

Unraveling the Web of Proteins in Spider Silk

A thermal image of a woman’s head and neck taken from the back.

Newly Found Fat Cell Uses a Different Approach to Heat the Body  

An illustration of a purple and blueribosome using mRNA as a template to synthesize a red protein chain.

A Small RNA with a Big Impact on Cell Aging

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Cellular Trains Make a Quick Getaway

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Fast Tracking Protein Delivery into the Nucleus

A tilted LED screen showing color-coded DNA sequences.

Expanding the Genetic Alphabet

A fluorescent imaginal disc from <em >Drosophila&nbsp;</em>larvae on a black background.

Cancers with an Exceptional Cause

MRI scan of a human head in profile

Gut Microbe Metabolites Lower Levels of Toxic Tau

Four circular maps of color-coded immune cell types corresponding to the four tumor microenvironment archetypes.

A Bird’s Eye View of the Tumor Microenvironment

A 3D spherical neutrophil animation with a pink, polysegmented nucleus

The Nucleus’ Secret to Shapeshifting

Image of small blue creatures called Nergals. Some have hearts above their heads, which signify friendship. There is one Nergal who is sneezing and losing health, which is denoted by minus one signs floating around it.
June 2025, Issue 1

Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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Seeing and Sorting with Confidence

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Streamlining Microbial Quality Control Testing

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