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Kerry Grens

Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until 2021. Before joining The Scientist in 2013, she was a stringer for Reuters Health, the senior health and science reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia, and the health and science reporter at New Hampshire Public Radio. Kerry got her start in journalism as a AAAS Mass Media fellow at KUNC in Colorado. She has a master’s in biological sciences from Stanford University and a biology degree from Loyola University Chicago.

Articles by Kerry Grens

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A Newly Found Organ for Arabidopsis

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Biogen’s Alzheimer’s Drug Gets FDA Approval, Mixed Reviews

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Dogs: The New COVID-19 Rapid Test

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Rare Fungal Infection Affecting COVID-19 Patients in India

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Lyme Disease Pathogen Present in Ticks Near the Coast

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US Health Authorities Ask for Pause in J&J COVID-19 Vaccination

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Most Kids with MIS-C Report Few or No COVID-19 Symptoms: Study

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Australian Government Adds a Dozen Animals to Extinct List

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WHO Discounts Idea that SARS-CoV-2 Leaked from a Lab

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Mutation in SARS-CoV-2 Variant Does Not Affect Vaccine: Study

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The Biggest Science News of 2020

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Timothy Ray Brown, First Person to Be Cured of HIV, Dies

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Campuses, Labs Close in Advance of Hurricane Laura

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February 2025, Issue 1

A Nanoparticle Delivery System for Gene Therapy

A reimagined lipid vehicle for nucleic acids could overcome the limitations of current vectors.

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Considerations for Cell-Based Assays in Immuno-Oncology Research

Considerations for Cell-Based Assays in Immuno-Oncology Research

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From Water Bears to Grizzly Bears: Unusual Animal Models

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Sex Differences in Neurological Research

New Frontiers in Vaccine Development

New Frontiers in Vaccine Development

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