Allison Whitten

Allison Whitten, PhD

Allison Whitten earned her PhD from Vanderbilt University in 2018 and continued her scientific training at Vanderbilt as a National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Postdoctoral Fellow. Her PhD and postdoctoral studies investigated the neurobiological causes of language impairments in neurological disorders. In 2020, she was awarded an AAAS Mass Media Fellowship to write for Discover Magazine. Her work has also appeared in WIRED, Quanta Magazine, Ars Technica, and more. 

Articles by Allison Whitten, PhD

A microscopic image of a bioactive scaffold with bundles of nanoscale filaments in pink and hyaluronic acid molecules in purple.
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A vector drawing shows one doctor standing on the left, pointing to a screen. On the right, another doctor sits and looks at a computer screen.
Futuristic-looking pills are shown in light blue over a dark blue background.
A doctor attends to a baby in an incubator.
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An old man sits on a rock that looks like a brain in the middle of the sea. A DNA coil that represents a gene therapy is in the sky.
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The human brain, viewed from the side, is shown with pieces disappearing.
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A fluorescent microscopy image of a mouse pancreatic tumor.
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A man in a white hat touches a wall painted with clouds.
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A hand hovers under a white pump bottle.
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A blue neuron is attacked by red antibodies.
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A black and white profile of a man with his hand on his forehead
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A microscopic view of the human heart muscle tissue.
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Clear blue test tubes with DNA inside
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Pink hands cutting and tweezing DNA on a pink background
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Overlapping profiles of yellow and blue faces are on top of a multicolored striped background.
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