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Fenella Saunders

Durham, Research Triangle Park

Editor In Chief at American Scientist

Editor-in-chief for American Scientist magazine, @AmSciMag. Director of Science Communications & Publications, @SigmaXiSociety. Tweets my own.

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  • Nov 27, 2023 | americanscientist.org | Fenella Saunders

    January-February 2024 Volume 112, Number 1 Frances Arnold received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2018 for pioneering directed evolution methods to make enzymes for applications in sustainable chemistry across medicine, consumer products, agriculture, fuels, and chemical production. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology.

  • Aug 15, 2023 | americanscientist.org | Fenella Saunders

    September-October 2023 Volume 111, Number 5 Our esteemed colleague and the longtime author of the Engineering column, Henry Petroski, passed away on June 14, 2023, at 81 years old. Henry wrote almost 200 articles for the Engineering column, having authored it in every issue since January–February 1991. I’ve had the honor of editing Henry’s columns since 2013.

  • Aug 14, 2023 | americanscientist.org | Fenella Saunders

    September-October 2023 Volume 111, Number 5 Relatively few organisms are a single cell thick, so their layers of cells have to work together to build a functional structure. Genes in different tissue layers are known to influence one another’s activity, and most of the time, that communication is assumed to occur via chemical signaling. But because the layers are in contact, there’s another option: mechanical forces.

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