Managing News Editor for @NewsfromScience, former biology reporter @Science and @ScienceNews, Dee-troit loyal
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John Travis retweeted
So ridiculous that girls need to spend money on lawyers to end this stupid ideology.
Another lawsuit from a female athlete refusing to compete with a man in her sport has been filed in Michigan 👏🏼
This is the way. #SaveWomensSports
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John Travis retweeted
“Magic or Realism?” Are recently discovered genetic variants that seem to protect against Alzheimer’s believable? My latest investigation –with Jennie Erin Smith– takes a deep dive to answer. science.org/content/article/…
Sadly, another tardy disclosure of a gene editing death in a Chinese clinical trial. Would the biotech have come clean without @Jasonmmast and Brain Yang's excellent reporting for @statnews ? Many parallels to our investigation 2 weeks ago 1/ statnews.com/2026/08/05/chin…
John Travis
Here's our earlier report. I suspect our story made the STAT writers' head explode given what they were already working on! But kudos to their own probe. science.org/content/article/…
16 months after a young girl died in a gene-editing trial, the study's entry in clinicaltrial. gov has finally been updated to acknowledge the death. The move comes after @NewsfromScience and @retractionwatch.com
revealed the fatality 1/ science.org/content/article/…
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The entry now says: The single participant died on 31 March 2025 from thrombotic microangiopathy, a serious adverse event assessed as definitely related to the study drug. Planned follow-up was not completed, and the study was terminated. 2/ clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT…
A quick response to our investigation into a hidden gene-editing death science.org/content/article/…
More on today's big exclusive on a gene therapy death in China
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@NewsfromScience and @RetractionWatch have a feature today on a clinical trial death that the saddest, and longest, science story I've edited. But it's also one of the best IMO. Beautifully written and reported by @bborrell. We’re grateful to the parents of "Mei" 1/
UNC announced virologist Ralph Baric is retiring but @sciencecohen has the exclusive backstory--HHS wants to debar him and he's fighting it, calling BS on charges science.org/content/article/…
Small biotechs and other firms relying on U.S. research dollars can rejoice after Trump yesterday signed long-stalled SBIR/STTR reauthorization package. A Senate impasse was broken recently. See our @NewsfromScience story on the programs' importance science.org/content/article/…
A forgotten social media post may hold key clues to COVID-19’s origin | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/…
Few of the things I work on at Science are purely fun, but the Dance your Ph.D contest is an exception. I'm always impressed by the creativity and enthusiasm of the entries. Graceful electrons and pole dancing analysis of pee? See this year's winners! science.org/content/article/…
I kind of feel like a one trick pony in that I seemingly only ever cover vaults--but they are about the most mysterious, coolest things ever. Here's what we can do with them now: time capsules for gene activity science.org/content/article/…
Why @minakimes do I feel like one of these mandatory 10 second runoffs will anticlimactically end an exciting playoff game one day. NFL has been lucky so far
Fun, fascinating, provocative vaccine story to ponder while sipping an IPA. Nice find by @thsaey sciencenews.org/article/vacc…
John Travis retweeted
Breaking news: U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R–KY) has asked Science to divulge a range of confidential information about its scholarly articles and external private communications on that family of viruses. scim.ag/4p3AOHu
A fake neuroscientist, Jeffery Epstein, lawsuits, and the most famous pic of DNA. Another wild @sciencecohen yarn: After bizarre journey, prized history of molecular biology archive finds new home science.org/content/article/…
