Lindzi Wessel
Journalist and Writer at Freelance
Freelance journalist and science writer based in California/Chile. Organizadora @SAPeCCT. Bylines @NewsfromScience, @KnowableMag, @Statnews, etc.
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2 weeks ago |
medicalxpress.com | Lindzi Wessel
A multinational study led by researchers at Stanford Medicine has found that the risks of major complications after stenting or bypass surgery are similar, even several years out. The risk of death and stroke were the same whether patients received bypass surgery or stenting, and the risk of heart attack was only slightly higher after a stenting procedure. Most prior research comparing the two procedures has suggested that bypass surgeries had better outcomes.
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Nov 14, 2024 |
bigthink.com | Lindzi Wessel
A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people In the summer of 2016, 100 teenage girls living in California’s Salinas Valley slipped silicone bracelets onto their wrists and committed to keep them there for a week. Around the same time, 92 preschoolers in Oregon accessorized the same way. The bands found their way onto the wrists of farmworkers in Peru and Houston residents working to rebuild after Hurricane Harvey.
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Nov 5, 2024 |
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Ruthann Richter |Lindzi Wessel
For more than two decades, the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign has taught aspiring health technology innovators to deliver valuable products to patients. Part of that training is ensuring that all the center's fellows have a better understanding of health equity and that they appreciate the ways new technologies can widen or narrow the gaps in access to care.
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Jul 9, 2024 |
science.org | Meredith Wadman |Lindzi Wessel |Rodrigo Pérez Ortega |Ann Gibbons
A leading developmental biologist at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) this spring resumed teaching and supervising students, including undergraduates, ending a 3-month suspension without pay imposed after the school found he had likely engaged in persistent, pervasive sexual harassment.
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Mar 8, 2024 |
science.org | Eva Frederick |Rodrigo Pérez Ortega |Lindzi Wessel
Every year, millions of tissue and organ samples from animal experiments go to waste, left forgotten in the back of lab freezers or destroyed to free up space. Scientists in Spain are hoping a new online tool could help. Called aRukon and set to launch globally this year, the virtual marketplace will allow researchers to sell unused animal samples to other labs, potentially cutting waste and saving animal lives.
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Apologies for the strange tweets coming from me over the last few hours. Account was hacked. Hopefully fixed now. 🤞
Thanks to @orfilamaria for bringing attention to the water crisis in Uruguay and how it's affecting scientific research!
Esta es mi primera nota para uno de los mejores medios de ciencia y periodismo científico del mundo @ScienceMagazine Gracias a @Open_Notebook y a @LindziWessel que me ayudan en este camino https://t.co/g9NTJyoW0r
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