Sneha Khedkar

Sneha Khedkar

Assistant editor at The Scientist

Articles by Sneha Khedkar

Astronaut Suni Williams displays production packs containing genetically engineered yeast and edible media for incubation to activate yeast growth.

Designer Microbes Aid Space Exploration Efforts

A scientist in a microbiology laboratory working with an Agar plate that has a few blue colonies.

Viral Enzyme Accelerates Evolution of Therapeutic Proteins

A mother breastfeeding her baby. Antibodies in the breastmilk shape the baby’s immune responses.

Breastmilk Antibodies Shape the Infant Immune System

Hands of an anthropologist revealing human skull from dirt. Studying the genomes from fossilized dental plaque revealed information about evolution of the human microbiome.

Ancient Dental Plaque Unearths Prehistoric People’s Lifestyle

Two big, one small, and three smaller cockroaches against a beige-colored world map.

Genomics Uncovers How Insect Pests Crept Across the World

3d collage illustration artwork of a person asleep on the moon, wrapped in a blanket, isolated on a background with stars.

Why Do People Sometimes Forget Their Dreams?

Magnifying glass on a stack of documents.

Retraction of Controversial Arsenic-Life Paper Stirs Debate Among Scientists

3D illustration of a lymphocyte binding to proteins.

BATMAN Signals T Cell Receptor Crossreactivity

A woman wearing a hat, sunglasses, and blue top smells jasmine flowers.

Olfactory Organoids Sniff Out the Cells That Help Us Smell

Identical twins lying upside down on white blanket.

Are Identical Twins Really Identical?

Drying cloths dyed with a red pigment.

A Fungus, Not Its Insect Host, Paints the World Red

Doctor taking throat swab test from young female patient in the medical clinic.

Can Spit Help Diagnose Endometriosis?

Image of a man in a laboratory looking frustrated with his failed experiment.
February 2026

A Stubborn Gene, a Failed Experiment, and a New Path

When experiments refuse to cooperate, you try again and again. For Rafael Najmanovich, the setbacks ultimately pushed him in a new direction.

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