Tina Hesman Saey
Senior Writer, Molecular Biology
Senior writer Tina Hesman Saey is a geneticist-turned-science writer who covers all things microscopic and a few too big to be viewed under a microscope. She is an honors graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she did research on tobacco plants and ethanol-producing bacteria. She spent a year as a Fulbright scholar at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, Germany, studying microbiology and traveling. Her work on how yeast turn on and off one gene earned her a Ph.D. in molecular genetics at Washington University in St. Louis. Tina then rounded out her degree collection with a master’s in science journalism from Boston University. She interned at the Dallas Morning News and Science News before returning to St. Louis to cover biotechnology, genetics and medical science for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. After a seven year stint as a newspaper reporter, she returned to Science News. Her work has been honored by&꧂nbsp;the National Academies of Scie🌺nces, Engineering and Medicine, the Endocrine Society, the Genetics Society of America and by journalism organizations.
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esportiva bet: Cows might host both human and b꧒ird flus
Both kinds of influenza viruses may break into cattle cells using receptors similar to those in people, wild birds and poultry. - esportiva bet: Health & Medicine
Traces of bird flu are showing up in cow milk. Here’s what to kn♛ow
We asked the experts: Should people be worried? Pasteurization and the H5N1 virus’s route to infection suggests risks to people remains low. - esportiva bet: Life
A vacc꧂ine for bees has an unexpected effect
Honeybees vaccinated against a bacterial disease were also protected from a viral disease. - esportiva bet: Life
𓆉During a total solar eclipse, some colors really pop. Here’s why
As a solar eclipse approaches totality and our eyes adjust to dimming light, our color vision changes. It’s called the Purkinje effect. - esportiva bet: Genetics
esportiva bet: Here’s why♊ some pigeons do bac🐼kflips
Meet the scientist homing in on the genes involved in making parlor roller pigeons do backward somersaults. - esportiva bet: Health & Medicine
Don’t use unsterilized tap water to rinseꩵ your sinuses. It may carry brain-eating amoebas
Two new studies document rare cases in which people who rinsed sinuses with unsterilized tap got infected with brain-eating amoebas. - esportiva bet: Planetary Science
The desert planet in ‘Duneꦬ’ is plausible, according to science
Humans could live on the fictional planet Arrakis from Dune but (thankfully) no giant saꦑndworms would ﷽menace them.
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Ancient viruses helped speedy nerves evoಞlve
A retrovirus embedded in the DNA of some vertebrates helps turn on production of a protein needed to insulate nerve cells, aiding speedy thoughts. - esportiva bet: Health & Medicine
Newfound immune c༺ells are responsible for long-lasting allergꦆies
A specialized type of immune cell appears primed to make the type of antibodies that lead to allergies, two research groups report. - esportiva bet: Microbes
Bird flu viruses may ꦍpack tools that help𒁏 them infect human cells
Bringing along their own ANP32 proteins may give avian flu viruses a jump-start on copying themselves to adapt to and infect humans and other animals. - esportiva bet: Humans
esportiva bet: Here’s why COVID-19 isn’t seaso💫nal so far
Human immunity and behavior may be more important than weather for driving seasonality when it comes to COVID-19. - esportiva bet: Chemistry
Here’s how t♐ardigrades go into suspended animation
A new study offers more clues about the role of oxidation in signaling transitions between alive and mostly dead in tardigrades.
