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Veronique Greenwood

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neuroscience

New Insights Into How Zika Harms the Brain

By Veronique Greenwood
July 7, 2016
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Researchers are racing to understand how the Zika virus causes birth defects. Their first results have revealed tantalizing clues about how the virus interferes with the developing brain — and how it might be stopped.

genetics

A Secret Flexibility Found in Life’s Blueprints

By Veronique Greenwood
April 26, 2016
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A new study reveals that individual genes can create many different versions of the molecular machinery that powers the cell.

ecology

A Timely Fix for a Grand Theory of Nature

By Veronique Greenwood
March 11, 2016
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A disarmingly simple model of ecology does everything well — except predict how rapidly nature can change. Can it become more realistic while still avoiding all of biology’s messy complexities?

Life’s Big Leaps: Critical Moments in Evolution

The Woman Who Stared at Wasps

By Veronique Greenwood
November 5, 2015
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The biologist Joan Strassmann discusses cooperation in social insects, how amoebas can teach us about competition, and why the definition of “organism” needs an overhaul.

Biology

Networks Untangle Malaria’s Deadly Shuffle

By Veronique Greenwood
October 15, 2015
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By examining regions shared between some of nature’s most variable genes, malaria researchers are piecing together an understanding of a deadly parasite.

Biology

How the Body’s Trillions of Clocks Keep Time

By Veronique Greenwood
September 15, 2015
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Cellular clocks are almost everywhere. Clues to how they work are coming from the places they’re not.

Biology

Networks Reveal the Connections of Disease

By Veronique Greenwood
January 29, 2015
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Disease is the result of failure somewhere along the line in a complex dance of biological components. Now statistical physicists are using enormous databases of medical records to study connections between illnesses.

ecology

The Thermodynamic Theory of Ecology

By Veronique Greenwood
September 3, 2014
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Nature’s large-scale patterns emerge from incomplete surveys that borrow ideas from information theory.


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