Mary-Russell Roberson, science writer
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A Few Representative Articles​ . . .


Saving More Babies Through Innovation in Pediatric Heart Surgery, Duke SOM Magnify, February 2024

Tufts Researcher Takes on Epilepsy After Daughter's Diagnosis, Tufts Now, March 2024

​Adaptable Academics: Amid Pandemic Upheaval, Flexibility Finds Opportunity, inquiry@UC Santa Cruz, October 2021

Mind, Body, and Soul: Warrior Wellness for Older Vets with PTSD, Duke SoM Magnify, October 2019

Mockingbirds Can Learn Hundreds of Songs, But There's a Limit, Living Bird magazine, Spring 2016
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. . . And Many More

Tufts University

Smart Microbes Use Pathogenic Tools to Deliver Therapeutics, June 2025

From One Coalition, Dozens of Projects Advance Asian American Health in Communities, February 2025

Working Across Boundaries to Engage Students in Research, October 2024

Improving Access to Health Care with Community Health Workers, September 2024

A Disturbing Trend in Colon and Rectal Cancers, June 2024

What Dog Owners Should Know about Leptospirosis, April 2024

Changing Health Care One Student at a Time, February 2024

A Summer Program Where Students Learn So Much More than Science, September 2023
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Restoring a Lost Sense of Smell, July 2023

​Do Children Inherit Parents' Stressful Experiences? June 2023

What is Causing the National Blood Shortage? March 2022

When Will the Pandemic Be Over? February 2022

How Can We Set a Fair Price for Drugs? January 2022

Taking a Broader View of Pandemics, January 2022

Tracking the Shifting Landscape of the Opioid Crisis, September 2021

UNC Frank Porter Graham Institute

Preventing Child Trauma in North Carolina: "We Can Do This," May 2023

Supporting and Connecting Organizations Addressing Child Trauma, May 2023

Addressing Root Causes of Child Trauma, May 2023

Addressing Child Trauma in North Carolina: What State Agencies are Doing, May 2023

Addressing Child Trauma in North Carolina: What Community Groups and Nonprofits are Doing, May 2023

Advocacy: Turning Science into Policy, May 2023
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Opioid Settlement Funds Could Help Prevent Child Trauma in North Carolina, May 2023
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Duke University and Duke School of Medicine

Beverage Guidelines Help Parents Steer Kids Toward Healthier Drinks, May 2025

Unique Clinic to Treat Myopia
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Pratap Challa Recognized with National Award, February 2025

What Comes Next: The Future of Biomedical Science and Health Care (series), January 2025

Shining a Light on Nature's Superfast Movements, Fall 2024

Helping Young Adults Move Forward After Cancer, December 2024

Theoretical Physics is a Family Business, October 2024

Probing the Quantum Nature of Reality, September 2024

How Will We Use Quantum Computers? September 2024

Using Physics to Understand Biology, September 2024

Looking for the Achilles Heel in Treatment-Resistant Tumors, August 2024

Shining a Light on Nature's Superfast Movements, Summer 2024

Extreme Cells Could Provide New Insights into Cell Biology, Pregnancy Diseases, and Cancer, June 2024

Bridging Gaps in Brain Health Research, April 2024

The Power and Promise of RNA, March 2024

Duke Psychiatry Program Expands Mental Health Support for Foster Children, November 2023

More Options for People with Blood Cancers, October 2023​

​Truly Cured, October 2023

The Doctor Who Wants to Change How We Treat Cardiovascular Disease, September 2023

Building a Better Solar Cell, September 2023

Cool Cosmology + Coding = Answer's to Life's Big Questions, September 2023

Finding Cures by Stressing Out Cells, Duke Science & Technology, August 2023

​Making Pregnancy Safer, August 2023

The Changing Landscape of Medical School Admissions, June 2023

​A Life of Service for People with Disabilities, June 2023

Gene Therapy Aims to Help Eyes Produce Their Own Medicine, June 2023

Duke Emergency Medicine Comes into Its Own, April 2023

Outsmarting Superbugs, One Germ at a Time, April 2023

Duke AI Health: Making AI Work Better for All, March 2023
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The Kids are Not Alright, November 2022

Do the Math and Find the Model, November 2022

Developing New Tools to Fight Cancer, October 2022

Bringing Together Physics, Neuroscience and Dance, September 2022
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Alumni are Forging the Future of Biotech and the Business of Health Care, July 2022

Smooth as Glass, June 2022

​Ken Frazier: Listening with Respect, June 2022

Ken Frazier on the Role of the Private Sector in Improving Society, June 2022

Food Sustainability in Focus, May 2022
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A Fountain of Youth for the Brain, March 2022

Simulate the Human Heart? Without Missing a Beat, February 2022

Better Stats. Better Outcomes, February 2022

Dr. Charles Johnson and his Legacy of Change, February 2022

Using Machine Learning to Predict Catastrophic Events, January 2022

Helping Kids Navigate the Pandemic, December 2021

Discovery of I-Shaped Antibody Opens New Avenue to HIV Vaccine, Fall 2021

Better Preclinical Testing with Organs-on-Chip, Fall 2021

One Step Ahead: Using Machine Learning to Predict Catastrophic Events, Fall 2021

Staying Healthy in Space, August 2021

Presidential Award for Holland and Wolfe is Cause for Celebration All Around, April 2021

Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Healthcare for All, March 2021

Shining a Light in a Black Box: Creating Better Machine Learning Programs, March 2021

Driving Research to New Treatments for AMD, March 2021

Harnessing the Brain's Resilience to Fight Alzheimer's Disease, March 2021

Using New Materials to Treat an Old Problem, March 2021

Two Blues Join Forces to Fight Alzheimer's Disease, March 2021

About Time: Reducing Health Disparities in Cancer, Winter 2021

Years in the Making: Duke Human Vaccine Researchers Apply Lessons from HIV to COVID-19, November 2020

Clinical Researchers Seek Ways to Lesson the Severity of COVID-19, October 2020
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At the Intersection of Sickle Cell Disease and Geriatrics with Charity Oyedeji, August 2020

​About Duke & Durham, August 2020
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A Gathering: Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis, June 2020

​Embracing Global Health's Teachable Moment, June 2020
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Understanding COVID-19 Antibodies is Crucial to Vaccine Development, May 2020

​Children and COVID-19, April 2020

​Duke Researchers Pivot to Attack the New Coronavirus, March 2020

How to Talk to Your Older Parents about the Coronavirus, March 2020

​​Ghana: Healthcare for a Country in Transition, March 2020

Creating Communities to Address Health Disparities, January 2020

​Changing of the Guard at the Aging Center, October 2019

​Programming Cell Behavior, October 2019

Death Cafe: Tea, Cake, and Conversation, September 2019

Overcoming Resistance, Fall 2019
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CAR-T Therapy: A Living Drug, Fall 2019​

​Harvey Cohen Says Yes, June 2019

Liquid Biopsies Smooth the Way for Personalized Medicine, Spring 2019

Helping Women with Rheumatic Disease Have Families, April 2019

​Annual Report for Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development, 2018-2019

​Dan Scolnic: Using Supernovae to Construct Expansion History of the Universe, January 2019​

​Michael Troxel: Using Weak Gravitational Lensing to Map the Invisible Universe, January 2019

​Helping the Heart to Repair Itself, July 2018

Christoph Schmidt: Using Physics to Understand Biology, December 2017

Pratt Undergrads Explore Nanoscience Research, August 2017
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POSH Program Takes Team-Based Approach for Care of Older Patients Who Need Surgery, August 2017

​Ben Cerio: From Physicist to Data Scientist, December 2016

Duke Med Student Looks for Clues to Predict Lung Transplant Outcomes, August 2016
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Duke's Materials Science Sparks a Brighter Energy Future, March 2016

Celebratory Bottles Mark the March of Time, November 2015

Scott Winton's Fine-Feathered Life, September 2015

A New Way of Looking at Melanomas and Renaissance Paintings, May 2015

Weitao Yang on Knowing How Electrons Behave, May 2015

After the Tsunami: Ten Years of Recovery and Resilience, November 2014

Grappling with Climate Change Policy, Spring 2014

Environmental Influences on Health, Starting Before Birth, February 2014

Sheila Patek: Research With a Powerful Punch, October 2013
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Raleigh News & Observer/Charlotte Observer 

Primate Armpits: What They Reveal about Us and Apes, February 2016

The Real Problem with Black Holes, November 2015

UNC-Chapel Hill Research Suggests RNA from Fathers Works Harder, May 2015

Could Autism and 'Chemo Brain' Share Similar Origin? February 2015

Helping the Body's Own Stem Cells Repair Tissue After a Heart Attack, October 2014

10 New NC Plants for the 21st Century, July 2014

Asheville Entrepreneur Aims to Harness Cyanobacteria's Photosynthetic Prowess, May 2014

Quest website: the science of sustainability

Cats, Chemicals, and Consumer Power, March 2014

Endeavors: stories powered by UNC research

Why Be Happy? Winter 2008
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