Hindsight

Looking back at a year filled with discoveries and challenges.

Written byBob Grant

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Well, it certainly was an eventful 2018 here at The Scientist. Our talented editorial staff has done a superb job of bringing you all the latest news, discoveries, and controversies in life science. We have tried our best to bring you not just the pearls of wisdom and creativity that the research enterprise cultures and secretes, but the warts as well.

As with any other sizeable human endeavor, science is a multifaceted pursuit. It harbors stories of triumph and progress in almost equal measure with tales of deception and ruin. As a news organization seeking to communicate the issues, developments, and ideas important to our life-scientist readers, The Scientist strives for both realism and equilibrium in its coverage. For example, in addition to reporting the awarding of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to two researchers who pioneered the study and development of cancer immunotherapy, we wrote about ...

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Meet the Author

Bob Grant
From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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