Katherine Ellen Foley

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Otters Get the Flu, Too

December 26, 2014May 25, 2015Leave a comment

Some sea otters have the antibodies for a human flu virus.

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Disrupting Dementia

As the aging population booms, so will age-related dementia—one of the most expensive medical conditions to manage. Treating a growing number of patients with dementia while limiting costs is among the greatest health and economic challenges facing an aging planet. A five-part series for Quartz.

10 years after the Nobel Prize, telomeres are still a murky lead in longevity research

Telomeres—the caps that protect our genetic material—could be the key to unlocking the biological fountain of youth. Tinkering them comes with the risk of cancer. That hasn't some voracious scientists from getting dubious clinical trials off the ground.

The business of fertility

Fertility started out as an evolutionary need. But with the advent of infertility medicine, the industry has ballooned into a money-making machine rife with inequality. A six-part series for Quartz.

Excluding minorities from Alzheimer’s research is wrong—and it’s keeping us from finding a cure

SARS-CoV-2 is relatively weak as far as viruses go. The specific way it infects our cells makes it to ramp up an actual infection—which is exactly what makes it so sinister.

Gene reading

Genetics promised us personalized medicine. Twenty years after sequencing the human genome, though, the most accessible reads on our DNA aren’t from our physicians, but from large corporations that sell direct-to-consumer genetic tests. Our curiosity has fueled a booming industry—but for the most part, they’re not providing us with anything substantial. An eight-part series for Quartz.

The US communities hit hardest by Covid-19 are also the most ignored

Older adults are the most at risk of severe complications from Covid-19. Those with limited English proficiency, however, have had an even harder time navigating the pandemic because due to a lack of resources and information in diverse languages.

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