While Cynthia Graber isn’t new to reporting on regenerative medicine, her interview with Tufts University biologist Michael Levin led to some unexpected stories. In research that recalls the toils of Dr. Frankenstein, Levin uses electricity to initiate regeneration of body parts in living organisms. In light of recent advances in DNA research, the field of [...]
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Cynthia Graber profiles a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein
Posted by Melanie Bauer on December 21st, 2012
Posted in Behind-the-Story Interviews 
Tags: Bauer, Edits, Graber, Guest Contributor, Interviewing, Matter, Narrative, Reporting, Structure, Writer Interview 
No Comments »Natural Habitat: Cynthia Graber
Posted by Siri Carpenter and Jeanne Erdmann on June 27th, 2012
In our “Natural Habitat” series, we invite science writers to share their working spaces — offices, spare bedrooms, coffee shops, hammocks — and the accoutrements that help them do their best work. (If you’d like to nominate your office to be featured at Natural Habitat, let us know.) Today, we visit the Somerville, Massachusetts home office [...]
Ask TON: Finding international stories
Posted by Jeanne Erdmann and Siri Carpenter on March 7th, 2012
Welcome back for another installment of Ask TON. (Wondering what Ask TON is? See here for background information and our introductory post. Click on “Ask TON” above to see previous installments.) Today’s question: I’d like to do more international travel as part of my work. I don’t really know how to begin finding stories in [...]
Posted in Ask TON Tags: Ask TON, Borrell, Field Reporting, Finding Ideas, Fox, Graber, International, Pitches, Rosner, Sohn, Stone 1 Comment »Gabriel Spitzer explores the Chicago science scene
Posted by Cynthia Graber on February 15th, 2012
Clever Apes, a science series that airs on the Chicago public radio station WBEZ, won the 2011 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in the Radio category. Gabriel Spitzer, host and founder of the show, created the WBEZ science beat, and works with producer Michael De Bonis on the bimonthly segment. In this TON podcast, Spitzer [...]
Posted in Behind-the-Story Interviews Tags: Clever Apes, Graber, Guest Contributor, Kavli Awards, Podcast, Spitzer, Writer Interview No Comments »Holly Tucker animates a centuries-old science story
Posted by Cynthia Graber on September 26th, 2011
In her new book Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution, historian Holly Tucker weaves a tale of the first blood transfusion experiments (at the time, such transfusions were all animal-to-human) during the mid-17th century, about 150 years before blood transfusion began to enter modern medicine in earnest. Tucker delves into [...]
