Lina zeldovich

13 articles

- Technology
Why AI Needs a Genome
- By Lina Zeldovich
- December 7, 2021
AI could learn and adapt like humans with algorithms that work like genes.
- Health
This Is Some Good Shit
- By Lina Zeldovich
- November 10, 2021
How the sewage plant in our nation’s capital spins human poop into fertilizer gold.
- Health
My 3 Greatest Revelations
- By Lina Zeldovich
- November 10, 2021
The author on writing her new book, “The Other Dark Matter.”
- Health
Triggering the Body’s Defenses to Fight Cancer
- By Lina Zeldovich
- November 3, 2021
Experiments once considered crazy are now helping scientists attack tumors.
- Genetics
The Rise of RNA Therapeutics
- By Lina Zeldovich
- September 29, 2021
DNA mutations are hard to fix. Scientists are trying another approach.

How to Outwit Evolution

We can defeat superbugs by staying one step ahead of them.
- By Lina Zeldovich
- July 14, 2021
The Cancer Custodians

To beat our worst enemy, we must first let it grow.
- By Lina Zeldovich
- June 23, 2021
The Doctor Will Sniff You Now

Step aside, Dr. House, Deep Nose will one day be the best diagnostician in medicine.
- By Lina Zeldovich
- February 3, 2021
The Man Who Drank Cholera and Launched the Yogurt Craze

Ilya Metchnikoff laid the foundation for modern probiotics.
- By Lina Zeldovich
- April 21, 2015
A Holiday Guest Is Leaving Dangerous Poop in Your Couch

We have long known that we can catch germs while traveling. Recent years have shown that we can also bring home bed bugs. This holiday season, a PLoS One study informs us that by merely plopping into the seat of a car or airplane, we can unknowingly pick up dust mites—microscopic 8-legged arthropods that eat […]
- By Lina Zeldovich
- December 29, 2014
Teen MacGyver Invents Battery to Save the Planet

14-year-old creates eco-battery with aluminum foil, old guitar strings, and club soda.
- By Lina Zeldovich
- December 23, 2014