Published Work
My edited articles have appeared in Scientific American, Forbes, The Counter, Retraction Watch, Spectrum, and elsewhere.
Recommended
- Switching neurons on and off to probe autism circuits | Spectrum
- Hacking Photosynthesis | Codon Magazine
- The Laws of Science | New Science
- Foodborne diseases kill thousands of Americans each year. Tracing food with genetically engineered spores could help. | The Counter
- Bad blood at a lab leads to retraction after postdoc publishes study without supervisor’s permission | Retraction Watch
- Prominent Chinese scientist failed to disclose company ties in COVID-19 clinical trial paper | Retraction Watch (later covered in the Financial Times)
- New Science's Report on the NIH (Editor) | New Science
- Interactive Autism Drug Tracker | Spectrum
New Science
- (Editor) New Science's Report on the NIH
- (Editor) Reversing 1.5 Billion Years of Evolution
- (Editor) Towards a Universal Immunotherapy
- (Editor) A Call for Context (in Cell Culture)
- The Laws of Science
- (Editor) Molecular Missionaries
- (Editor) Research Papers Used to Have Style. What Happened?
- Rejected Grants Are Good for You
- (Editor) Engineering Stable Microbes
- (Editor) Measure Proteins in Place
Scientific American
- Mosquitoes See Red (Literally) when They Smell Human Breath
- Newly Studied Proteins Expand CRISPR's Editing Range
Retraction Watch
- Clinical trial paper that made anemia drug look safer than it is will be retracted
- Prominent Chinese scientist failed to disclose company ties in COVID-19 clinical trial paper
- Ecologist who lost thesis awards earns expressions of concern after laptop stolen
- Editor declines to correct paper with duplicated image after earlier study disappears
- University in Japan revokes doctorate for plagiarism of text, image
- The rector who resigned after plagiarizing a student’s PhD thesis
- An author asked for multiple corrections to a paper. PLOS ONE decided to retract it.
- Seven barred from research after plagiarism, duplications in eleven papers
- Paper claiming Muslim patients are “particularly sensitive” retracted
- Editor who opined on author excuses has paper subjected to an expression of concern
- “Riddled with errors”: Study of cell phones and breast cancer retracted
- University clears scientist of logging industry’s misconduct allegations
- After grad student suicide, misconduct findings, university suspends professor
- Bad blood at a lab leads to retraction after postdoc publishes study without the supervisor’s permission
- University of Tennessee investigation finds manipulated images in Science paper
- Meet the postdoc who says he’s been trying to retract his own paper since 2016
- Eleven papers corrected after nutrition prof fails to disclose patent, company ties
- Leading evidence-based group blames pandemic for 9-month delay pulling flawed cancer review
- Mathematician ranked as Clarivate “highly cited researcher” has third paper retracted
- Journal pulls two studies that listed an author without his permission
- What is a figure about budgies doing in four different plant papers?
- “The whole thing is yucky:” When you’re surprised to find yourself as an author on a paper
- “I don’t think I slept for a day and a half:” Bad news for study about bad news
The Counter
Earth Island Journal
Forbes
- New this ski season: A jacket brewed like spider’s silk (with John Cumbers)
- Meet eight tech titans investing In synthetic biology (with John Cumbers)
Spectrum News
- Switching neurons on and off to probe autism circuits
- Autism brain signature most pronounced in sensory areas
- New tool transforms, compares dissimilar brain maps
- Six steps to using machine learning for animal behavior research
- Spectrum Index: Self-harm hospitalizations, everolimus flops in phase 2 trial
- By the Numbers: Suspensions, unemployment, health checks
- Modified CRISPR tool boosts UBE3A levels in mice
- Psychiatric conditions hospitalize almost one in four autistic women by age 25
- Autistic LGBTQ+ people report frequent mental health problems
- Clinicians lack confidence in diagnostic interviews with Black mothers
- Spectrum wins four national Azbee awards
- Spectrum Index: Dip in autism screening, null cancer risk, therapist surge
- Deep-learning tool tracks interacting animals in real time
- By the Numbers: Services cliff, hospital costs, co-occurring ADHD
- Miniature microscope records thousands of neurons in moving mice
- Open-source algorithm automates common marble-burying assay
- Spectrum Index: Rare genetic diagnoses, obesity odds, violence against children
- By the Numbers: Mental health diagnoses, melatonin-tied polypharmacy, journal gender gap
- Health-care barriers prevent many autistic people from seeking medical treatment
- Electronic health record alerts for physicians boost autism study enrollment
- Controlling neurons with ultrasound: Q&A with Sreekanth Chalasani
- Spectrum Index: IQ deviations, rural disparities and underweight infants
- Women outnumbered among editors of top journals in neuroscience, but not in autism
- By the Numbers: Autism funding over time, West African research, racial reporting
- Most autism intervention studies lack data on race, ethnicity
- Anorexia before or during pregnancy linked to having a child with autism
- By the Numbers: Unequal ABA access, autism incidence by insurance type, criminal charges counts
- Autism Drug Trial Tracker
- Introducing Spectrum’s Autism Drug Trial Tracker
- By the Numbers: Autism in translation, rising prevalence figures, intelligence quotients
- ‘Pay-to-participate’ autism stem-cells paper retracted
- By the Numbers: Black neuroscience speakers, mildly effective CBT, autism’s diagnostic odyssey
- Age at autism diagnosis, first intervention drops to under 3 years
- Cognitive behavioral therapy may be only mildly effective for anxious, autistic children
- By the Numbers: Preschool antipsychotics, COVID-19 vaccinations, delayed autism diagnoses
- Missed check-ups, delayed autism diagnoses among low-income children
- Few autism researchers plan to attend conferences in person this year: Survey
- Q&A with W. David Lohr: Antipsychotics, polypharmacy among autistic preschoolers
- By the Numbers: Machine learning, dementia link, antipsychotics while pregnant
- Autism mouse models cluster by brain activity pattern
- Autism study earns ‘expression of concern’ over unavailable data
- Protein atlas doubles number of known interactions in mice
- By the Numbers: Coronavirus infection odds, Medicaid waivers, correlating conditions
- Sex, age of diagnosis correlate with autism comorbidities
- Ultra-rare variants point to new autism candidate genes
- Beyond the Bench: A conversation with Ofer Yizhar
- Method tracks neuron paths, gene expression simultaneously
- Q&A with Richard Bethlehem: What goes into a Brainhack
- New optogenetics technique minimizes thermal damage to neurons
- Polypharmacy, shifting prescriptions common for autism comorbidities
- By the Numbers: Polypharmacy, outpatient autism care, pandemic behaviors
- Disrupted cell skeletons may explain brain wiring changes in autism-linked condition
- Wireless optogenetic devices sync neurons among mice
- Copyright claim prompts retraction of study on alexithymia in autism
SynBioBeta
- Automated biology is now an affordable reality
- How aquaculture innovation can save seafood
- How automation and machine learning help explore the dark corners of the genome
- Spiber’s biomaterials stack: From new production facility to fashion runway
- One lab in Germany is using robots to advance computer-aided synthetic biology
- Synthetic biology gets a makeover with Evonetix's DNA synthesis technology
- How synthetic biology is dyeing the future of fashion
- Synthetic biology for sustainable cities (with John Cumbers)
- Why carbon recycling could be synthetic biology's crowning achievement
- Biology unlocked: Emerging applications of cell-free systems
- Biotechnology meets fashion and sports performance: Trends in the apparel industry
- Find a needle in the cancer haystack
- Living medicines: Engineering the microbiome
- Synthetic biology and reproducibility meet on the internet (of things)
- Synthetic life: Made from scratch
- Scientists are engineering organisms to create new materials
Caltech Letters
- Decoding the language of genomes (with Suzy Beeler)
- How synthetic biologists could save the Cavendish banana from the brink of collapse
Scienceline
- A light switch for cutting DNA
- How a Minnesota town cut back on salt
- [Audio] What does the coronavirus sound like?
- AI can’t color old photos accurately. Here’s why
- AI can make music. But will it replace your favorite musician?
- Hackers set their sights on 3D printers
- Black veterans more likely to test positive for coronavirus than white veterans
- Viral genome built in a test tube
Massive Science
- A proposal to use CRISPR to prevent opioid overdoses is a useless approach to healthcare
- Here’s why many CRISPR/Cas9 experiments could be wrong – and how to fix them
- New parasitic interaction discovered in Antarctic lakes
- Fighting cancer with exploding antibody-filled bacteria
Little Village Magazine
- Iowa’s dwindling bee population is part of a larger, frightening trend (cover story)
- UI students are rewiring genes to create biodegradable plastic
- By ‘poking’ cells, a University of Iowa lab studies the science of healing
- Six groundbreaking research projects at the University of Iowa
- The best and worst of 2017 (science)
CRISPR News
The Official PLOS Blog
- Science Behind-the-Scenes: Multiplexed CRISPR and sgRNA arrays with the Howard Salis lab
- Science Behind-the-Scenes: CRISPR for metabolic engineering with Dr. Raphael Ferreira
- Science Behind-the-Scenes: Engineering microbial consortia with Dr. Marika Ziesack
- Science Behind-the-Scenes: Tethered ribosomes with Dr. Erik Carlson
- Science Behind-the-Scenes: Do-It-Yourself OD measurements with Dr. Chinna Devarapu and Vamsi Yallapgragada