Sneha Khedkar

Sneha Khedkar

Sneha Khedkar is an Assistant Editor at The Scientist. She has a Master’s degree in biochemistry, after which she studied the molecular mechanisms of skin stem cell migration during wound healing as a research fellow at the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine in Bangalore, India. She has previously written for Scientific American, New Scientist, and Knowable Magazine, among others.

Articles by Sneha Khedkar

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What Is Gene Doping in Sports, and How Can Experts Detect It?

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Bat Cells in a Dish Offer a Tool to Study Their Viral Responses

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Why Do Some Women Crave Chocolate Before Their Period?

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Mitochondrial DNA: A Maternal Legacy That Helps Trace the Past and Diagnose the Future

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A Man Who Survived Hundreds of Snakebites Helped Scientists Develop a Potent Antivenom

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Funding Disruptions in Cancer Research Affect Patients’ Lives, Scientists Say

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Microbes Fuel the Immune Cells That Engulf Them

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Targeting a Fat Cell Receptor to Drive Weight Loss

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How Climate Influences a Deadly Snake’s Venom Chemistry

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Why are Some Vaccines Better Together?

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Aerobic Bacteria May Predate Earth’s Oxygen Boom

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Zika Hacks Host Skin Chemistry to Lure Mosquitoes

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Developing an Effective Lyme Disease Vaccine

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Scientists Who Pioneered GLP-1 Drugs Bag Breakthrough Prize

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Mapping the Fallopian Tubes to Understand Reproductive Health

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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

Detecting Residual Cell Line-Derived DNA with Droplet Digital PCR

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Making Real-Time PCR More Straightforward

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