Michelle Taylor

Editor-in-Chief

Michelle Taylor has worked on the Laboratory Equipment brand since 2010, and the Forensic brand since 2016. Well established in the industry, Michelle has attended dozens of scientific conferences and conducted interviews with key opinion leaders, including multiple Nobel Prize winners. Always keeping a pulse on the industry, Michelle enjoys

writing about CRISPR-Cas9, CTE, STEM, next-generation sequencing and more. Michelle received her BA in journalism from Elon University in North Carolina. Michelle can be reached at [email protected]

Just 5 Universities Train Majority of Academics
September 22, 2022
Just five U.S. universities have trained 1-in-8 tenure-track faculty members serving at the nation’s institutions of higher learning. read more
Altering Current Livestock Diet Could Feed 1 Billion More People
September 20, 2022
A researcher dedicated to global water and food issues has devised a simple way to increase the global food supply to feed about 1 billion more people without increasing natural resource use or implanting major dietary changes. read more
380-million-year-old Fish Heart is Oldest, Best Preserved Ever Found
September 16, 2022
The analysis of the oldest—and best preserved—fish heart fossil ever found clarifies an evolutionary hole on the way from jawed stem vertebrates to living jawed vertebrates, which includes mammals and humans. read more
Army’s Malaria Vaccine Safe, Effective in First Human Trials
September 15, 2022
WHO reported 14 million more cases of malaria in 2020 compared with 2019, resulting in 69,000 more deaths. Approximately two-thirds of the additional deaths were linked to COVID-19-caused disruptions. read more
Study Reveals How Air Pollution Causes Lung Cancer in Non-smokers
September 13, 2022
How does air pollution kill 300,000 non-smokers across the globe every year? Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and University College London have finally answered that question. read more
Study: Current COVID-19 Infections Include Future Variants of Concern
September 09, 2022
Researchers discovered that the genetic variants observed in low frequency in older COVID-19 infections morphed into new strains responsible for later transmission surges. read more
Female Hummingbirds Camouflage as Male to Avoid Aggression
September 08, 2022
While deception generally carries a negative connotation, female hummingbirds have found a way to leverage trickery to their benefit. read more
Voice App Can Detect COVID-19 Infection, COPD Flare Up
September 07, 2022
Scientists created an AI model that can detect SARS-CoV-2 infection in people’s voices through a mobile phone app even when no symptoms are present. The model is accurate 89% of the time. read more
The Search for the Scent that Could Save Avocados
September 06, 2022
To avoid more crop-killing, invasive species, Hoddle and his team are working on ways to not only combat the weevil population in Mexico but also ensure they do not make their way to California. read more
SARS-CoV-2 is Not a Sphere—and That Makes it Easier to Transmit
September 01, 2022
A team of researchers says we’re picturing SARS-CoV-2 incorrectly. Not only that, but its real shape contributes to how easily the virus can be transmitted. read more
‘Stolen DNA’ is a Third Route to Antibody Formation
August 30, 2022
In a new study, researchers describe a “stealing” mechanism that uses foreign genes or other distant DNA fragments to create disease antibodies—even if a patient has never been infected with said disease. read more
Identifying the Mysterious Compounds Behind Vanilla’s Flavor
August 26, 2022
Researchers have used a relatively new, innovative method called “flavoromics” to identify 20 key chemicals found in vanilla bean extracts, including several previously unknown ones. read more
Study: Roundup is Toxic at Levels 300x Less than Common Exposure
August 25, 2022
In a groundbreaking study focusing on glyphosate and Roundup as a whole, researchers have shown that both increase seizure-like behavior in C. elegans. read more
Bacteria in Gut Microbiome Reverses Peanut Allergies in Mice
August 23, 2022
Some of the bacteria in the gut microbiome produce metabolites that foster the growth of beneficial bacteria and maintain the lining of the gut. One such metabolite is butyrate, which has been shown to play a role in allergic reactions. read more
Forever Nevermore: Chemists Find PFAS’ Achilles’ Heel
August 19, 2022
Tipping what we know about PFASs on its head, chemists at Northwestern University have developed a process that causes two major classes of PFAS compounds to fall apart—leaving behind only benign end products. read more
World’s Tiniest EEG Cap is the Size of an Ink Dot
August 18, 2022
Engineers from Johns Hopkins University have developed the world’s tiniest EEG electrode cap—about the size of a pen dot—to measure activity in a brain organoid. read more
New Heat Index Shows it’s Much Hotter than Previously Estimated
August 16, 2022
If you have walked out into the heatwave that has been the month of August and thought, “It feels hotter than 93 degrees,” you were probably correct. read more
New Antibody Neutralizes All Known SARS-CoV-2 Variants
August 12, 2022
Using the mouse model, the team from Boston Children’s Hospital discovered an antibody that neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, including all Omicron variants. read more
Wastewater Testing Expands to Monkeypox and Polio
August 11, 2022
Knight and his team began experimenting with the possibility their test might work with both virus types in May and started monitoring wastewater from the Point Loma treatment plant in early June for the presence of monkeypox virus. read more
New Paper Disputes Others: Size of the Human Brain has Never Changed
August 09, 2022
In a new article, Brian Villmoare and Mark Grabowsk dispute the conclusions of not only the DeSilva et al., paper, but the entire theory of an evolutionary decrease in human brain size. read more