Articles by

Maggie Chen

The Fall of Roe Makes Complex Pregnancies Even Riskier

Doctors who care for pregnant people often have to make time-sensitive decisions when lives are on the...

This Stamp-Sized Ultrasound Patch Can Image Internal Organs

When a patient goes into a clinic for an ultrasound of their stomach, they lie down on...

These Vaccines Will Take Aim at Covid—and Its Entire SARS Lineage

Even though the researchers only used a RBD from one version of Covid, their vaccine generated a...

What Humans Can Learn From the Sea Cucumber’s Toxic Arsenal

But this chemical defense creates a big problem for sea cucumbers: They need to avoid killing themselves...

The Secrets of Covid ‘Brain Fog’ Are Starting to Lift

Allison Guy was having a great start to 2021. Her health was the best it had ever...

What Polar Bear Genomes May Reveal About Life in a Low-Ice Arctic

Shapiro’s Nature Ecology study also focused on what may have happened to other polar bear genomes during...

How the Sugars In Spit Tame the Body’s Unruly Fungi

Katharina Ribbeck’s lab collects mucus—the often gooey substance present in places like the mouth, gut, reproductive tract,...