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Growing up in Palmetto, Florida, Nicoletta Lanese dreamed of being a fiction writer. In high school, she found herself drawn to science. She was also an avid dancer, having performed in a variety of styles since age four. So she decided to attend the University of Florida (UF), where she could double major in dance and neuroscience. There, Lanese’s interests started to collide, as she choreographed dances inspired by scientific illiteracy and locked-in syndrome, and blogged about what she was learning in her science classes. In her junior year, she got the idea of what she might do for a living when a neuroscience professor handed her back an assignment in which she’d summarized a research paper and told her that she would “make a good science writer,” Lanese recalls. A quick Google search led to her to numerous resources on the profession, and she quickly realized that it bridged ...