Diana Kwon
Science Journalist at Freelance
Independent journalist covering life sciences, health, and academia. Bylines in @sciam @TheScientistLLC @Nature @KnowableMag & others. She/her
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thewire.in | Diana Kwon
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popsci.com | Diana Kwon
Research in both humans and animals suggests that stress can negatively influence cancer progression. Image: Malte Mueller/Getty Images This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine.
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2 weeks ago |
knowablemagazine.org | Diana Kwon
About two millennia ago, the Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen suggested that melancholia — depression brought on by an excess of “black bile” in the body — contributed to cancer. Since then, scores of researchers have investigated the association between cancer and the mind, with some going as far as to suggest that some people have a cancer-prone or “Type C” personality. Most researchers now reject the idea of a cancer-prone personality.
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1 month ago |
nature.com | Diana Kwon
At a virtual conference in November 2020, the winner of a biennial protein-structure-prediction challenge was announced: AlphaFold. Created by Google DeepMind, this computational tool had blown its competitors out of the water by solving dozens of protein structures with atomic-level accuracy, accomplishing a feat that researchers had been attempting for decades.
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scientificamerican.com | Diana Kwon
Charlene Sunkel was 19 when she started hearing voices and strange thoughts began filling her head. People wanted to infiltrate her mind, to poison her, to rat her out to the police. She stopped making eye contact, convinced that it would enable others to steal her thoughts. Once sociable and outgoing, Sunkel withdrew from friends and family, worried that they were conspiring against her. On her way to work, she had visions of men in hoods from the corner of her eye.
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GenAI has given fraudsters a powerful new way of making fake images. My latest in @Nature looks at what people are doing to try to stop this problem from spiraling out of control: https://t.co/T0B8vLn50H