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Susan Young
I’m the biomedicine editor for MIT Technology Review. I look for stories where technology stands to improve human health or advance our understanding of the human condition.
I joined MIT Technology Review in March 2012 after a brief stint in the Washington, D.C., news bureau of the scientific journal Nature. Before I ventured to the East Coast, I spent several years in the San Francisco Bay Area as a doctoral student in molecular biology and one whirlwind year in science-writing boot camp in Santa Cruz.
In California, I wrote for the Stanford University press offices, the Multiple Sclerosis Discovery Forum, and the Salinas Californian newspaper. I grew up in a small town in eastern Texas, surrounded by bird song, rolling cattle fields, and lanky pine trees. When I’m not exploring health tech, you will probably find me cooking or giggling over an exceptional LOLcat.
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July 21, 2014
Modernizing the Medical Record -
July 21, 2014
Blood Sugar Crash -
June 17, 2014
Neuroscience’s New Toolbox -
June 10, 2014
Biotech Makes Personalized Cancer Vaccines Using Tumor Samples -
May 28, 2014
Genome Editing to Reverse “Bubble Boy” Syndrome -
May 23, 2014
DNA-Based Research May Have Unveiled Long-Sought Diabetes Treatment -
May 19, 2014
We Need a MERS Vaccine, but High Costs, Regulations Make One Unlikely -
May 14, 2014
Nerve-Stimulating Implant Could Lower Blood Pressure -
May 12, 2014
FDA Approval for Robotic Arm Controlled by Muscle Activity -
May 9, 2014
Can Compounds in Young Blood Fix Aging? - See all of Susan's stories