Hannah Thomasy, PhD
Hannah joined Drug Discovery News as an assistant editor in 2022. She earned her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Washington in 2017 and completed the Dalla Lana Fellowship in Global Journalism in 2020. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Undark, and New Scientist. She enjoys playing soccer and hiking and hopes to be a contestant on The Great Canadian Baking Show one day.
Articles by Hannah Thomasy, PhD
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Scientists identified specific genes that confer protection or vulnerability to various infections, pointing the way to new treatments.
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Researchers explore the role of forgetting in normal brain function and as a therapeutic target for fear-related disorders.
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From reducing prion protein to fighting neuroinflammation, researchers try different techniques to combat deadly prion diseases.
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Isabelle Mansuy explores how life experiences alter the epigenome of an organism and its descendants.
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Negative childhood experiences can leave epigenetic scars that haunt organisms for life.
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A dementia-associated tau mutation promotes unusual clustering of Fyn, a protein important for learning and memory.
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For decades, treatment options for sickle cell disease have been extremely limited. Soon, gene therapies and a host of pharmaceuticals could alleviate the immense burden of this disease.
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Emily Mevers investigates the compounds produced by millipedes that may inspire the medicines of the future.
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From green fluorescent protein to polymerase chain reaction, many basic science discoveries fueled important advances in biomedicine.
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Cell therapies derived from stem cells could one day prevent vision loss or even restore sight in retinal degenerative disease.
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Bioengineer Linda Griffith creates tissue models to figure out what causes endometriosis and how to treat it.
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Data from a highly resilient individual guided researchers to new potential therapeutic targets.
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A new form of brain stimulation treatment that responds to a patient’s brain activity could be life changing for people with neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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With childhood peanut allergies on the rise, scientists itch to find ways to prevent deadly reactions to this ubiquitous food.
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People with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome can wait years for diagnoses; biomolecular tests are finally in development.
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