In this installment of The Pulse on the public radio station WHYY, The Scientist’s associate editor Kerry Grens talks about the spacecraft that successfully landed on a comet, an experiment in which human thoughts controlled gene expression in mice, and the effort to parse the genomes of cats.
The Scientist on The Pulse, November 14
Mounting and drilling a comet, mind-controlled gene expression, and dissecting cat genomes



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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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