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Lauren Gravitz

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Reporter and editor specializing in science & medicine. Tweet curator. Bylines in Nature, WaPo, STAT News, NPR, TechReview, more. ’21-’22 MIT KSJ Fellow.

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New treatments and new hope reach kidney patients

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By Lauren Gravitz
| Scientific American Verified
This article is part of “Innovations In: Kidney Disease,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. Although more than one in seven adults in the U.S. have chronic kidney disease, as many as 90 percent of them don’t know they have it. Left untreated, the kidneys can become irreparably damaged.
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A brief history of precision self-scanning

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By Lauren Gravitz
| The Transmitter Verified
Freelance Writer Share this article: Tags: Brain imaging, Brain mapping, Connectome, fMRI, Science and society After the publication in 1992 of a seminal paper detailing insights from functional MRI, scientists focused for two decades on comparing scans from large groups of people. But in 2012, a researcher named Russell Poldrack introduced a new approach to the field. Poldrack wanted to know more about the individual brain rather than group averages generated by large-scale scanning projects.
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New Hope in Alzheimer’s Research

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By Lauren Gravitz
| Nature Verified
A diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease is typically followed by years of uncertainty, grief and a painful decline into oblivion. But although there is so much researchers still don’t understand about the disease and what drives it, scientists are making progress faster than ever before and providing patients and their families with options for both diagnosis and treatment.
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