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Levi Gadye

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  • Health and Science Writer, UCSF School of Pharmacy, Freelance
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I'm a freelance science writer and recently-graduated neuroscience Ph.D from UC Berkeley (December 2016). I've written for Motherboard (Vice) and io9/Gizmodo, and I got my start writing and editing with the Berkeley Science Review, a graduate student-run magazine. My writing is inspired by the many intersections of science, medicine, environment, and social justice. I have a penchant for introducing the general public to human brain specimens, and I've taught math and neuroscience on and off ov…

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I Now Cringe at a Sexist Joke I Made in the Lab. Why Don't All Scientists Learn?

I Now Cringe at a Sexist Joke I Made in the Lab. Why Don't All Scientists Learn?

When I was a young scientist, I was called out for making a misogynistic joke in lab, and the experience made…

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Change We Must Believe In

Change We Must Believe In

Feature article highlighting various facets of climate change research and policymaking occurring at UC Berke…

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How The Great French Wine Blight Changed Grapes Forever

How The Great French Wine Blight Changed Grapes Forever

One hundred fifty years ago, the Great French Wine Blight nearly wiped out an industry that today produces so…

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Born Again Brains

Born Again Brains

Scrape a knee. Pull a muscle. Hell, break an arm. You can expect your skin, muscle, or bone, in whichever sce…

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You Can Thank Genetic Engineering For Your Delicious Cheese

You Can Thank Genetic Engineering For Your Delicious Cheese

It used to be that making cheese meant killing cows. Young cows, specifically-a few days old, at most. The st…

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Walking the talk: taking ethics seriously in science

Walking the talk: taking ethics seriously in science

"What would you say is the most important thing you've gained from this ethics course?" the assistant chemist…

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A Single Molecular Change May Help Viruses Jump from Bat to Human

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By Levi Gadye Verified
| University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Most pandemics start when a pathogen spreads from animals to humans. It’s a leading explanation, in fact, for the COVID-19 pandemic: the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, is a cousin to coronaviruses that live in bats.
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Can We Convince the Body’s “Big Eater” Cells to Devour Tumors?

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By Levi Gadye Verified
| University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Roarke Kamber, PhD, an assistant professor in the Anatomy department at UC San Francisco, has been named a 2026 Pew-Stewart Scholar, an award that supports early-career scientists who pursue breakthroughs in cancer development, diagnosis, and treatment. Kamber studies macrophages (“big eater” in Greek), the immune system’s garbage disposal cells. They consume sick or dead cells — up to 200 billion per day in each of us — plus pathogens and debris.
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This is How to Beat the Tumor Cells That Survive Cancer Therapy

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| University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
The team gathered 94 drug candidates that other laboratories had flagged as potential persister therapies. They wanted to test each drug, at different doses, on persisters from two types of lung cancer that had been treated with standard therapies. It would require 10,000 painstaking, week-long experiments — so they built a robotic platform to eliminate the labor and inconsistency of doing it by hand. Thousands of miniature tumors sat in stacks of 384-well plates inside controlled incubators.
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