Features/Essays

"The Science of Cities: Life in the Concrete Jungle"
Nature, Nov 20, 2012

"Do You Really Need a Knee Replacement?"
The Boston Globe, Oct 22, 2012

"Were Aristotle and Thoreau Ecologists?"
The Boston Globe, Oct 21, 2012

"New Tests Could Divine a Baby's Genome Before Birth"
Technology Review, August 29, 2012

"Boston's Lost Island Neighborhood"
The Boston Globe, July 29, 2012

"The True Faces of Emotion"
New Scientist, July 25, 2012

"What Human Doctors Can Learn from Vets"
The Boston Globe, June 24, 2012

"Wearing a Computer is Good for You"
Technology Review, May 15, 2012

"The Traumatized Brain"
Harvard Magazine, Mar/April 2012

"Indoor Ecosystems"
Science, February 10, 2012

"The Mystery Behind Anesthesia"
Technology Review, Jan/Feb 2012

"The New Science of Our Cross-Wired Senses"
The Boston Globe, December 11, 2011

"The Olfactory"
Wired, November 2011

"Roads of the Future"
Boston Globe, October 9, 2011

"Ecosystem, Sweet Ecostystem"
Boston Globe, August 28, 2011

"A Whiff of History"
Boston Globe, July 17, 2011

"The Beasties that Made Us Human"
New Scientist, June 18, 2011

"Deeply Conflicted"
Boston Globe, May 15, 2011

"Rethinking Snow"
Boston Globe, March 13, 2011

"Dating Sites Try Adaptive Matchmaking"
Technology Review, Dec 27, 2010

"Thrown Off Balance"
Boston Globe, Nov 22, 2010

"Data Mining the Heart"
Boston Globe, Aug 22, 2010

"This is Not a Weed"
Boston Globe, May 23, 2010

"Our Microbes, Ourselves"
Boston Globe, March 28, 2010

"An Evolving Foe"
Harvard Magazine, Mach-April 2010

"The Sweet Smell of Morality"
Boston Globe, Feb 14 2010

"Untangling the Brain"
Harvard Magazine, May-June 2009

"The Body Politic"
Seed Magazine, April 2009

"Life Sciences, Applied"
Harvard Magazine, Jan-Feb 2009

"Stay Healthy This Season"
Body+Soul Magazine, November 2008

"Beauty Basics: Pure Perfumes"
Body+Soul Magazine, November 2008

"The Pigeon and the Plate"
Gourmet.com, September 5, 2008

"Shedding Light on Life"
Harvard Magazine, May-June 2008

"Bigger Biology"
Harvard Magazine, November-December 2006

"Designing Green"
Improper Bostonian, May 3, 2006 [pdf]

"A Dove By Any Other Name ..."
Orion, November-December 2004 [pdf]

Selected News

"Pacing the Heart with Light"
Technology Review, August 16, 2011

"The Mechanics of Blast Injuries"
Technology Review, July 22, 2011

"A Better Personal Health Record?"
Technology Review, July 21, 2011

"A Vaccine to Attack Cancer Early"
Technology Review, May 4, 2011

"Speeding up the Healing Process"
Technology Review, April 13, 2011

"Potential Health Effects of Radiation Exposure"
Technology Review, March 16, 2011

"How to Predict Success with IVF"
Technology Review, Oct 4, 2010

"Needling Molecules"
Technology Review, January 12, 2010

"Genomic Architecture"
Harvard Magazine, January-February 2010

"A Beacon to Guide Cancer Surgery"
Technology Review, August 28, 2009

"Reprogrammed Human Cells Shed Light on Rare Disease"
Technology Review, August 20, 2009

"Killing Cancer Stem Cells"
Technology Review, August 13, 2009

"Nanoconstruction with Curved DNA"
Technology Review, August 11, 2009

"Artificial Knees Made to Order"
Technology Review, July 13, 2009

"A Limb Regeneration Mystery Solved"
Technology Review, July 2, 2009

"Peering Inside a Bird's Brain"
Technology Review, June 25, 2009

"Antibody Drugs Customized by Genotype"
Technology Review, June 12, 2009

"Making Fat Disappear"
Technology Review, June 8, 2009

"More Precise Genetic Engineering for Plants"
Technology Review, April 30, 2009

"Brewing with Synthetic Biology"
Technology Review, April 22, 2009

"A Rodent's Anti-Aging Secrets"
Technology Review, February 18, 2009

"Lighting Up Cells in 3-D"
Technology Review, February 9, 2009

"Fewer Calories = Better Brains?"
Technology Review, January 27, 2009

"Best Sperm for the Job"
Technology Review, January 21, 2009

"Nanotubes Track Cellular Toxins"
Technology Review, December 15, 2008

"Patching Hearts"
Technology Review, November 1, 2008

"Spot On"
Conservation Magazine, Oct-Nov 2008

"Attacking Cancer Stem Cells"
Technology Review, October 8, 2008

"Call and Response"
Conservation Magazine, July-Sept 2008

"Solving the Mystery of fMRI"
Technology Review, June 20, 2008

Matching Tumors to Drugs
Technology Review, May 27, 2008

"Reprogrammed Stem Cells Work on Parkinson's"
Technology Review, April 8, 2008

"Zeroing in on Inflammation in Diabetes"
Nature Network Boston, April 2, 2008

"A Unique View of Disease"
Technology Review, April 1, 2008

"Life's Speed Limit"
Harvard Magazine, March-April 2008

"How the TB Bug Dodges the Immune System"
Nature Network Boston, January 25, 2008

"Mexico City's Rising Amphibian Star"
E, the Environmental Magazine, July/August 2007

"Catching Evolution on the Run"
Technology Review, February 15, 2007

"Unleashing Light"
Harvard Magazine, January-February 2007