Shelby Bradford, PhD

Shelby Bradford, PhD

Assistant editor at The Scientist

Shelby is an Associate Editor at The Scientist. She earned her PhD in immunology and microbial pathogenesis from West Virginia University, where she studied neonatal responses to vaccination. She completed an AAAS Mass Media Fellowship at StateImpact Pennsylvania, and her writing has also appeared in Massive Science. Shelby participated in the 2023 flagship ComSciCon and volunteered with science outreach programs and Carnegie Science Center during graduate school.

Articles by Shelby Bradford, PhD

Tuning Cancer Therapy with Acoustic Drug Delivery

By Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 6 min read

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How Augmented Reality is Advancing Brain and Mental Health Treatment

By Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 10 min read

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Cell Therapy is Poised for Sweet Victory in Diabetes

By Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 10+ min read

Advancing Stem Cell Therapy for Diabetes Treatment

By Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 3 min read

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Shattered Glass, Salvaged Synthesis

By Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 2 min read

Photograph of two Arabidopsis plants that either are from a genotype deficient in DNA methylation and small interfering RNAs from transposable elements (right) or has been rescued with the introduction of short hairpin RNAs. Whereas the plant on the left has four white petals like a normal plant, the plant on the right lacks these petals.

Small RNAs Save Plant Centromeres

By Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 2 min read

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Federal Employee Firings Threaten the Future of American Research, Scientists Fear

By Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 6 min read

Illustration of a scientist (right) demonstrating to an actor (left, in a white lab coat) how to pipette and explaining something (depicted by a virus and strand of DNA in a text bubble). Behind them is a movie set created to look like a laboratory, with stage lighting above and a film camera pointed at the set from the left side and straight ahead from a camera in the foreground. A director sits in a chair facing the set at the bottom left of the image.

The Guardians of Science in Sci-Fi Movies

By Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 7 min read

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Exploring New Ways that the Brain Rewires

By Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 4 min read

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A Gene Drive with a Disappearing Act Can Aid Pest Control

By Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 3 min read

3D illustration of blue and yellow ribosomes translating red mRNA into purple polypeptides.

Ribosomes Team Up to Translate Tricky mRNA Segments

By Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 3 min read

3D illustration of a tumor on a black background. The tumor has recruited blood vessels to grow into it from a main artery running at the bottom of the photo. Around the tumor, purple, pink, and blue immune cells try to enter the tumor microenvironment but are stopped.

Inducible CAR T Cells Target Solid Tumors Better

By Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 2 min read

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