Lauren Drake

Lauren Drake is a Biomedical Engineering PhD student at Vanderbilt University, where she uses in vitro models of the human brain to study neurodegenerative tau pathology. As a science journalism intern for Drug Discovery News, she is excited to cover novel advances in drug research. When she is not performing experiments or writing about science, she is cuddling with her cats, Willow and Huxley, and her rats, Mitski and Sappho.

Articles by Lauren Drake

A gray image of a brain with dark blood vessels throughout the tissue.
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A light blue drawing of a brain surrounded by dots and lines against a black background.
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Four T cells are shown over a blue background.
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A microscope image of grey spheres lined up in rows with speckles of cells inside each sphere.
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Pink, spherical viral particles float across a dark background.
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A drawing of a girl paddling through the intestines in a boat that looks like a bacterium.
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A baby lies down on a white sheet and holds a set of hands that touch the baby’s belly.
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A slice of ovarian tissue comprised of many pink, round cells with small red dots that represent a protein interaction within those cells.
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A network of purple neurons with small red spheres of aggregated protein deposits accumulated within the neuron bodies
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Neurons fire electrical signals.
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Two human kidneys are shown in blue and pink.
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