Elane Kim

Sep 18, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Elane Kim |Harvard College

His eyes wash over families of fruit, crushed cardboard, stickyhands. The trick is to be molecular: a watermelon sickwith jaundice is no good, mushy inside. Carries diseaseinternal to itself. Like how cells hold instructionsfor their own death or how birds always know the wayhome. His eyes washed with chemical droplets and stillunseeing. Like light flushed down the sink. Shade of whiteso brutal it could kill you. Choose the roundest, brightestfruit, says Appa.

Sep 6, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Elane Kim

REFLECTION ARTICLE December First published: 06 September 2024 No abstract is available for this article.

Aug 30, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Ryan Kim |Elane Kim |Erica Chen |Kelly E. Dooling

AbstractPrevious studies have reported that amputation invokes body-wide responses in regenerative organisms, but most have not examined the implications of these changes beyond the region of tissue regrowth. Specifically, long-range epidermal responses to amputation are largely uncharacterized, with research on amputation-induced epidermal responses in regenerative organisms traditionally being restricted to the wound site.

Feb 7, 2023 | jamanetwork.com | Elane Kim

During the last visit,we drank coffee and ate laughter. You didn’t recognizemy face, which was your face. I watched you sink into the furof your chair. That night, I held youin my arms, realized your smallness. You didn’t recognizemy face, but still askedif I had eaten, eyes likecaskets. That night, I imagined,for a moment, something like plaquesmelting, tangles unfurling into softness. Something like my face,your face, bright and softand so startlingly alive.