Associate editor Andrea Gawrylewski has graced the pages of The Scientist for more than three years, starting as an intern in October, 2005, fresh from journalism graduate school at Columbia University. Since then, she has written on the order of 200 articles for every section of the magazine and online, including seven features. Her favorite—and most challenging—piece, "Mendel Upended," (February 2008), described how the behavior of an Arabidopsis gene appears to overturn the classical laws of genetics. "The genetics were really complicated. But it was a really interesting field," Gawrylewski says. She is leaving The Scientist to become a development editor for the W.H. Freeman, where she will be editing science textbooks.
Last summer, as the senior science and health reporter for the Philadelphia National Public Radio affiliate, WHYY, Kerry Grens visited the Henke family, whose son suffers from fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), a rare genetic disorder that causes soft ...
