Selection of Past Work
Mar 22, 2022 ⋮ How gene therapy overcame high-profile failures
Mar 2, 2022 ⋮ Marie Maynard Daly was a trailblazing biochemist, but her full story may be lost
Nov 1, 2021 ⋮ Are viruses alive, not alive or something in between? And why does it matter?
Sept 17, 2021 ⋮ By taking on poliovirus, Marguerite Vogt transformed the study of all viruses
Biomedical engineering blog (Human OS) contributor. See Megan’s full selection of work.
Apr 29, 2021 ⋮ Q&A: In Silico Filmmaker Chronicles Breakdown of the Human Brain Project
Apr 21, 2021 ⋮ Lasers To Lunar Arks: Cryopreservation Heats Up
Mar 29, 2021 ⋮ Machine Learning Faces a Reckoning in Health Research
Mar 18, 2021 ⋮ Neuroscientists Unveil Tech for the Vision Impaired
Feb 15, 2021 ⋮ Two Health Sensors Unite in One Powerful Gadget
Jan 28, 2021 ⋮ 3D Printing Bone Directly Into the Body
Jan 15, 2021 ⋮ Wearables Provide Speedy COVID Screening
Dec 21, 2020 ⋮ Step Aside, PCR: CRISPR-based COVID-19 Tests Are Coming
Dec 4, 2020 ⋮ COVID Moonshot Effort Generates “Elite” Antivirals
Nov 24, 2020 ⋮ Does AI in Healthcare Need More Emotion?
Sep 4, 2020 ⋮ AI Recognizes COVID-19 in the Sound of a Cough
Oct 26, 2020 ⋮ Implants Needed For Precise Control Deep Into The Brain
Oct 7, 2020 ⋮ Treating Tinnitus Through the…Tongue?
Feb 22, 2017 ⋮ Kids who feel positive about their work do better in math
Feb 09, 2017 ⋮ The downside of telecommuting
Feb 02, 2017 ⋮ Sleep schedule off kilter? Camping might help.
Jan 24, 2017 ⋮ Want honest kids? Commend them for telling the truth when they do something wrong.
Jan 11, 2017 ⋮ Preschoolers could have less stress if they get positive one-on-one time with teachers
Dec 11, 2016 ⋮ Beauty, not need, often sways charitable givers
Aug 2013 ⋮ Myriad sues developers of competing breast cancer tests
May 2013 ⋮ With little research training, geriatricians pick clinic over the lab
Mar 2013 ⋮ Biobank managers bemoan underuse of collected samples
Nov 2012 ⋮ Targeted vaccines against feline dander could be the cat's meow
Apr 2012 ⋮ With a slip under the tongue, allergy tablets subdue the sniffles
Mar 2012 ⋮ Genomics contest underscores challenges of personalized medicine
Mar 2011 ⋮ Whistleblower protections for US government scientists flounder
Feb 2011 ⋮ Are advance market commitments for drugs a real advance?
Jan 2011 ⋮ Clinical drive prompts pharma and academia to partner up
Oct 2010 ⋮ Pooled studies can raise misleading alarm bells, regulators say
Jul 2010 ⋮ Gene test kit oversight could prove a mixed blessing for research
May 2010 ⋮ Vaccine contamination prompts safety review
Mar 2010 ⋮ State of denial
Feb 2010 ⋮ Elusive claims data hold promise for healthcare research
Jan 2010 ⋮ To boost breast cancer research, a center banks on healthy tissue
Dec 2012 ⋮ Vision-Restoring Implants That Fit Inside the Eye
Aug 2012 ⋮ Cyborg Tissue Monitors Cells
May 2013 ⋮ Meet the World’s Most Advanced Brain Scanner
Mar 2015 ⋮ U.S. Funds Efforts to Freeze Human Organs for Long-Term Storage
May 2011 ⋮ Top 10 Myths about Bedbugs
Feb 2010 ⋮ Engineered Mice Mimic Human Populations
Contributor [2015-2017]. See Megan’s full selection of work.
Sep 2017 ⋮ Did the author of a now-retracted article bribe a critic to silence him?
Mar 2017 ⋮ A diabetes researcher sued his former employer for defamation. Here’s the story.
Mar 2017 ⋮ “Strange. Very strange:” Retracted nutrition study reappears in new journal
Mar 2017 ⋮ After lawsuit threat, journal forces author to heavily revise education paper
Feb 2017 ⋮ Whistleblower gets court backing in defamation case — but at a cost
Jan 2017 ⋮ Nature paper with massive correction can’t be reproduced, says independent group
See Megan’s archived selection.
Jul 2014 ⋮ That Loving Feeling
Jun 2014 ⋮ Mutagens and Multivitamins
Jan 2014 ⋮ Outwitting the Perfect Pathogen
Jan 2013 ⋮ Freezing Cells
Jan 2013 ⋮ A Dime a Dozen
Apr 2013 ⋮ Getting Across the Phase III Finish Line
Jul 2012 ⋮ TARGETing High-Risk Childhood Cancers
Apr 2012 ⋮ The 24-hour, $1,000 Genome