The giant corpse flower warms up like a mammal as it prepares to bloom, unleashing pungent odors that reminiscent of rotting flesh. I wrote about recent research at Dartmouth News that sniffed out the genes and molecules behind these unusual phenomena.
home.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/11...

#ChatGPT goes to med school ... to act like a patient. I wrote about the AI Patient Actor App, developed by Dartmouth professor Thomas Thesen, that helps students sharpen their diagnostic and interpersonal skills.
home.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/01...

Great reporting from the front lines of the battle to save endangered species
www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

Excellent interview by Kamala Thiagarajan on #healthcare lessons from the Global South.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...

I've been working on this story for over a year, and it's without a doubt the most personal story I've ever written: Surgeons Aim to Transplant Organs from Pigs to Humans to Help Solve the Donor Shortage
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After a wonderful weekend at #SciWri23, it's time to say farewell to Boulder. Au revoir!

When we were hiring a biotech reporter at C&EN back in 2017, I told candidates, "I really want someone to dig into mRNA." Anyway, a good day to read Ryan Cross's subsequent piece (which I had the pleasure of editing) on the long slog to getting people interested in today's Nobel winning technology:

I'm a science writer working with Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Computer Science.

Looking to find old friends and new here.

The bird has flown... out into the blue sky, it seems.