In this installment of The Pulse on the public radio station WHYY, The Scientist’s associate editor Kerry Grens talks about a new fossil unearthed in China that may change the way science views flight in dinosaurs, research that get make genetic, rather than electric, pacemakers one step closer to reality, and the recent problems with how US government labs are handling samples of dangerous pathogens.
The Scientist on The Pulse, July 18
Flying dinos, genetic pacemakers, and dangerous microbes on the loose



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Kerry Grens
Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until 2021. Before joining The Scientist in 2013, she was a stringer for Reuters Health, the senior health and science reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia, and the health and science reporter at New Hampshire Public Radio. Kerry got her start in journalism as a AAAS Mass Media fellow at KUNC in Colorado. She has a master’s in biological sciences from Stanford University and a biology degree from Loyola University Chicago.
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