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Amber Dance

Los Angeles

Science Writer and Journalist at Freelance

Award-winning freelance science journalist. Scientific program director for the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. Book editor.

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Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | zmescience.com | Amber Dance

    In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading across the globe for nearly three decades did something wholly unexpected: It showed up in dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle. A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals — mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive contact. “Holy cow,” says Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

  • 3 weeks ago | knowablemagazine.org | Amber Dance

    Did you know that mushrooms can get sick? It was in 1948, in a Pennsylvania mushroom farm operated by the La France brothers, that scientists first observed a mushroom malady featuring puny caps and crooked stems. But only in 1962 did researchers finally realize viruses were behind La France disease, as it came to be called, and that viruses caused other fungal afflictions as well — thus launching a whole new field of study.

  • 1 month ago | nacion.com | Amber Dance

    A principios de 2024, la gripe aviar, que llevaba casi tres décadas propagándose por todo el mundo, hizo algo totalmente inesperado: apareció en las vacas lecheras del Mango de Texas. Una peligrosa gripe aviar circulaba de repente entre los mamíferos, mamíferos con los que las personas tienen un contacto continuo y extenso. Thomas Friedrich, virólogo de la Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison pensó “así es como empiezan las pandemias”.

  • 1 month ago | tucsonsentinel.com | Amber Dance

    Knowable Magazine In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading across the globe for nearly three decades did something wholly unexpected: It showed up in dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle.

  • 1 month ago | portugues.medscape.com | Amber Dance

    Em 2014, uma mulher com câncer avançado impulsionou a vida científica da Dra. Adrienne Boire para uma direção totalmente nova. O câncer, que havia começado na mama, havia se infiltrado no liquor da paciente, deixando a mulher de meia-idade, mãe de dois filhos, incapaz de andar. “Quando isso aconteceu?”, perguntou ela no leito do hospital. “Por que as células estão crescendo ali?”. Por que, de fato?

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