Shweta Karikehalli

Shweta Karikehalli is an environmental and science journalist based in New York City. Prior to joining _Spectrum_, Shweta was an editorial fellow at _Audubon_ magazine and worked for the _Daily Orange_, Syracuse University’s award-winning independent newspaper, as a copy editor and reporter. She has an M.A. in magazine, newspaper and online journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and a B.S. in conservation biology from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

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By Shweta Karikehalli

31 May 2019

2 min read

‘Zombie’ pig brains fire hours after death

A new method restores blood flow and some functions in pig brains four hours after the animals have died.

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‘Zombie’ pig brains fire hours after death

By Shweta Karikehalli

31 May 2019 | 2 min read

Spectrum

By Shweta Karikehalli

10 May 2019

2 min read

New method creates complex, long-lived brain ‘organoids’

A new method for growing brain organoids allows them to survive for up to a year — more than four times as long as is possible with other methods.

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New method creates complex, long-lived brain ‘organoids’

By Shweta Karikehalli

10 May 2019 | 2 min read

Spectrum

By Shweta Karikehalli

26 April 2019

2 min read

Mighty magnet promises to render human brain in intricate detail

A new magnetic resonance imaging machine has the power to reveal the brain’s structure and activity at unprecedented resolution.

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Mighty magnet promises to render human brain in intricate detail

By Shweta Karikehalli

26 April 2019 | 2 min read

Spectrum

By Shweta Karikehalli

22 March 2019

3 min read

Genome catalog bolsters global microbiome research

The largest-yet attempt to characterize the global diversity of the human microbiome — the population of microbes that live in our bodies — has found 4,930 species, 77 percent of which were previously unknown.

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