Writing
“Boutique medicine.” Winter 2007. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin.
“The Physician-in-Chief.” Fall 2007. Penn Medicine.
“Hospital strives to balance technology, patient stress.” December 2006. Boston Globe.
“Finding the Moral High Ground.” (With Laura DeFrancesco.) March 2006. Nature Biotechnology.
“Bagel Science: Home of the Big Gluten.” September 2005. New York Academy of Sciences.
“Technology to mimic Mother Nature.” August 2005. Boston Globe.
“Birds of a feather.” August 2005. Boston Globe.
“Building a business: Biotech’s knowledge trust.” August 2005. Nature Biotechnology.
“The link between dinosaurs and birds.” August 2005. New York Times.
“Commercializing synthetic biology.” July 2005. Bioentrepreneur.
“Chasing a cellular fountain of youth.” (With Christopher Thomas Scott & Stephan Herrera.) July 2005. Nature Biotechnology.
“Some Like it Hot: The Physiology of the New York Schvitz.” July 2005. New York Academy of Sciences.
“A talent for tech transfer.” April 2005. Bioentrepreneur.
“VC funding up, search now on for talent.” March 2005. Bioentrepreneur.
“Pacemakers aren’t just for the heart anymore.” March 2005. Boston Globe.
“Sun Damage-Revealing UV Photos Are Eye-Openers.” March 2005. MedPage Today.
“Biotech’s billion dollar officer.” February 2005. Bioentrepreneur.
“Chasing biotech, state by state—winners and losers.” February 2005. Nature Biotechnology.
“DNA Superstars.” March 2003. Wired.
“Magazine’s HIV claim rekindles ‘gay plague’ row.” February 2003. British Medical Journal.
“Men in Banker’s Black Try to Shake ‘02 Gloom.” January 2003. GenomeWeb.
“San Fran Mayor Willie Brown to Biotech: Choose Town, Not Country.” November 2002. GenomeWeb.
“Seeking the Universal Ome.” November 2002. GenomeWeb.
“Venter to Bio World: Exa-Byte Me.” November 2002. GenomeWeb.
“Stringing along: The key to exploring genomes is more genomes.” November 2002. Scientific American.
“Defying Dogma, Researchers Hail Unfolded Proteins.” June 2002. GenomeWeb.
“For Rent: World’s Largest Commercially Available NMR Spectrometer.” April 2002. GenomeWeb.
"Chinese Team Makes Public Novel Rice Genome Sequence.” January 2002. GenomeWeb.
“NASA Launches Into Genome Space from Silicon Valley.” December 2001. GenomeWeb.
"Competition, Politics, and a Pair of Pufferfish.” November 2001. GenomeWeb.
“The bioinformatics gold rush.” July 2000. Scientific American.
“Reality in wavelets.” March 2000. Princeton Weekly Bulletin.
“Economist estimates payoff of elite colleges.” February 2000. Princeton Weekly Bulletin.
“Myth and reality of espionage.” January 2000. Princeton Weekly Bulletin.
“Girls just want to have fun.” 2000. drDrew.com.
“Stopping cancer before it starts.” 2000. Scientific American.
“Miss New Jersey.” December 1999. Princeton Weekly Bulletin.
“Physics for all mind-sets.” December 1999. Princeton Weekly Bulletin.
“Sophisticated ceramics.” October 1999. Princeton Weekly Bulletin.
“Challenging positions: Adventure, physical and intellectual, is a way of life for religion professor.” May 1999. Princeton Weekly Bulletin.
“Do brain cells regenerate?” April 1999. Princeton Weekly Bulletin.
“PPPL dedicates NSTX.” March 1999. Princeton Weekly Bulletin.
“What is risky business?” February 1999. Princeton Weekly Bulletin.
“A Guide for the Perplexed - and the Betrothed.” January 1999. The Forward.
“Harder than rocket science.” 1999. Scientific American.
“Improving NMR/MRI.” November 1998. Princeton Weekly Bulletin.
“Check out: A buyer’s guide to styles, shops, sales and services.” November 1998. Time Out New York.
“Unjamming traffic with computers.” October 1997. Scientific American.
“That thing you chew.” April 1997. Time Out New York.
“Glue by the Numbers: A supercomputer cuts through a sticky blob of subatomic taffy.” May/June 1996. The Sciences.
“Little Squirt: The world’s smallest pump could fit just under your skin.” November/December 1995. The Sciences.
“Turn, Turn, Turn: Guidance proteins tell nerves where to grow.” September/October 1995. The Sciences.
“New Vessels for Old: Teaching clogged arteries to grow their own bypasses.” July/August 1995. The Sciences.