Catherine Arnst

Oct 24, 2024 | qz.com | Mara Johnson-Groh |Catherine Arnst |Michelle Cheng |Heather Landy

Ch innovation/innovators 2023A series that spotlights the global leaders who deployed bold technologies and industry-shifting ideas to imagine better ways of doing business in 2023.

May 16, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Catherine Arnst

Kim Black has loved to read ever since she was a child in Los Gatos, California, a town full of artists and writers in the bucolic hills outside San Francisco. That was before smartphones and video games, and reading is how she went on adventures. “My first love as a young reader was Call of the Wild by Jack London.”Black, now 67, also loves to talk about the books she’s read with other enthusiasts — in other words, she likes book clubs.

Dec 18, 2023 | qz.com | Catherine Arnst

For some three decades, scientists have been trying to figure out ways to create human organs from lab-grown cells. Thanks to a team led by Erin Bedford, Vancouver-based Aspect Biosystems is getting close—with a 3D printing process that creates human pancreas cells to treat Type 1 diabetes. Bedford, now head of bioprinting innovation, was one of the company’s first employees when she joined in 2018.

Dec 18, 2023 | qz.com | Catherine Arnst

Half of all medications prescribed in the US are not taken as directed—and in some cases, the consequences can be life or death. Prescription non-adherence, as it’s referred to, results in an estimated 125,000 deaths each year. But biochemist Tamar Sapir is aiming to knock down that number with a simple solution: a smart label that helps patients and their physicians stay on top of their medications.

Dec 18, 2023 | qz.com | Catherine Arnst

In 2008 Beau Wangtrakuldee, then a doctoral student studying chemistry at Northern Illinois University, was working alone in the lab on a Friday night when she spilled a small flood of chemicals. They burned through her protective lab coat and her jeans within seconds, scalding her leg. She quickly stripped off her clothes, avoiding a severe burn, and realized that the personal protective equipment (PPE) she was wearing—that is, a common lab coat—wasn’t protective at all.