Scientists speak up about landmark drug approvals, political and environmental activism, and the redefinition of death.
Catherine Offord
After undergraduate research with spiders at the University of Oxford and graduate research with ants at Princeton University, Catherine left arthropods and academia to become a science writer. She has...
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Dec 23, 2019
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Catherine Offord is an associate editor at The Scientist. Email her at cofford@the-scientist.com.
