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Alejandra Manjarrez, PhD

Alejandra Manjarrez was an assistant editor at Drug Discovery News in 2023. She is now a freelancer. She earned her PhD from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2018, and has written for The Scientist, Science, Knowable Magazine, The Atlantic, and others. She is an inveterate reader and dancer, and likes travelling.

Articles by Alejandra Manjarrez, PhD

A photomicrograph of staining of the enteric nervous system, with neurons in red and glia in green.
An outline of a human body with select organs shaded in blue. Seven red dots highlight potential sites of inflammation.
Microscopic image of a Gram-stained smear of a vaginal swab at 100x magnification. Stained rods and absence of bacilli indicate bacterial vaginosis.
A micrograph of a liver sample
An illustration shows epithelial cells in green within a lobule of normal breast tissue, with aneuploid cells highlighted in red.
A middle-aged woman sitting on a sofa touches her eyes showing discomfort.
An illustration of a woman sleeping and surrounded by three floating sheep.
A scanning electron microscope image shows grayish microparticles in various spherical sizes.
A microscopy image of the leptomeninges covering the surface of the cerebral cortex.
A person sitting on a couch reading a book in a dark room illuminated by a green LED.
A close-up of a blue small structure on a Petri dish.
A hand with a white glove placing an object in a centrifuge.
A hand with blue gloves holding a tube labeled “cfDNA Screening - Test”
Illustration depicting a large footprint in the sand and a tiny man and his shadow standing next to it.
An illustration of cream pouring out of a tube on top of skin.
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Close-up illustration of clustered, irregularly shaped 3D cell structures resembling organoids, displayed in a blue-toned background.
Machine learning-powered image analysis makes it possible to automatically and reliably quantify complex 3D cell structures.
Illustration of a glowing human brain with interconnected neural networks and bright data points, set against a dark, digital background.
Take a closer look at modern techniques that reveal when, where, and how neurons communicate in real time.
Gloved hand holding a petri dish containing red liquid culture medium against a light blue background.
As global regulations shift toward animal-free testing, how can researchers develop more biologically relevant in vitro models to advance drug discovery?
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