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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.

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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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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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July 2025, Issue 1

What Causes an Earworm?

Memory-enhancing neural networks may also drive involuntary musical loops in the brain.

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