Contributing writer
Lauren Schenkman is a freelance journalist. She has written for Atlas Obscura, The New York Times Magazine, Tin House, and TED Ideas. Before going freelance, she was a reporter and editor at Science magazine. She has undergraduate degrees in physics and English and an MFA in creative writing.
Photograph by Mona Paris Photography
Sam Wang, a neuroscientist running for the U.S. House of Representatives, has been considering American democracy for decades.
Two independent teams in Africa are developing stem cell lines and organoids from local populations to explore neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative conditions.
Deep-sleep cycling between brain waves of higher and lower amplitude dates far back on the evolutionary tree, according to a new comparative study of mammals and reptiles.
A new review of 15 years of studies on the connection between the microbiome and autism reveals widespread statistical and conceptual errors.
The Dutch Senate has ordered the Biomedical Primate Research Centre in the Netherlands to shift its funding away from primate experiments by 2030.
The sphinx, with a worm’s brain and a fly’s body, illustrates the potential pitfalls of using deep-learning techniques to model biological processes.
The sphinx, with a worm’s brain and a fly’s body, illustrates the potential pitfalls of using deep-learning techniques to model biological processes.
These glial cells are increasingly linked to neurodevelopmental conditions and the regulation of social behaviors and anxiety.
These glial cells are increasingly linked to neurodevelopmental conditions and the regulation of social behaviors and anxiety.
Catherine Carr explains her discovery that geckos retain a vibration-sensing pathway previously thought to be lost when animals moved onto land.
Catherine Carr explains her discovery that geckos retain a vibration-sensing pathway previously thought to be lost when animals moved onto land.