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Christina Szalinski

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Freelance writer with a PhD in cell bio. Focused on health, science, family & food. Bylines: The Atlantic, NYTimes, SciAm, Undark & more.
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A Faster Path to an Artificial Eye

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By Christina Szalinski
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Every year, thousands of people lose an eye to trauma, to disease, or to a painful condition that cannot be corrected without losing the organ. Others are born without one. For most of them, the path back to a sense of normalcy runs through an ocular prosthesis: a custom-painted artificial eye that sits in the socket over an orbital implant — the mechanism that produces prosthetic motility — and is, ideally, nearly indistinguishable from the patient’s remaining eye.
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The Silent Majority: RNAs That Don’t Make Proteins

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By Christina Szalinski
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Published28 May 2026 Author Christina Szalinski Source Knowable Magazine Non-coding RNA — RNA molecules that don’t carry instructions for making proteins — are abundant in our bodies and come in many shapes and sizes. Scientists are just beginning to figure out what they all do. Knowable Magazine When scientists first cracked the genetic code, they expected a simple story: DNA makes RNA, and that RNA, known as messenger RNA, makes proteins.
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EHR Burden in Oncology Is Taking a Toll. Is There a Fix?

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By Christina Szalinski
| Medscape Verified
On a typical morning in the clinic, Lawrence Shulman, MD, does what oncologists across the country do: he logs into his electronic health record (EHR)and starts searching. Not for a diagnosis — he already knows what his patients have. He’s searching for the key data relevant to that patient’s cancer care, buried somewhere in a sprawling digital chart that might contain years of lab results, imaging reports, genomic panels, and notes from a dozen specialists.
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