Freelance Science Writer
Kerry Taylor-Smith is a science writer who covers everything from climate change and the environment, to health and wellness, to material science, astronomy and space. She has a BSc in Natural Sciences from the University of Bath and over a decade of experience writing for various scientific and consumer publications.
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Published Content
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Transforming Healthcare: What’s on the Horizon for Cell Therapies?
This article explores the current landscape and future potential of cell therapies, including CAR T-cell and stem cell-based approaches, highlighting their expanding clinical use, underlying mechanisms and the challenges that lie ahead.
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Bridging the Gap: Creating More Physiologically Relevant Human Cell Models
Three-dimensional models allow researchers to better represent complex tissues and cell-cell interactions. This article explores the cell models currently used by researchers to understand disease and aid drug discovery.
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Cell Lines: Current Challenges in Cell Line Development for Therapeutics
This article explores some of the challenges in developing cell lines for therapeutics, such as cell line stability, and how they are being addressed.
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Advances in Liquid Biopsies: Improving Sensitivity and Earlier Detection
This article will focus on some of the advances currently being made in the field of liquid biopsy, from attempts to improve the sensitivity of tests, to using bodily fluids other than blood.
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Cell-to-Cell Communication in Cancer
We typically think of a cancerous tumor as a bunch of abnormal cells gone rogue, but the situation is more complicated. This article will explore cell-to-cell communication’s role in cancer development, its influence on metastasis and how research is expanding our knowledge of the disease.
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Synthetic Biology: Nature's Tools, Redesigned
Kerry Taylor-Smith explores the latest advances in synthetic biology, from the development of new agricultural biotechnology tools to therapeutics and diagnostics.
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Feeding Tomorrow: Exploring the Next Frontier in Food
Our food system is at a pivotal moment; there is enormous potential for innovation to unlock more healthy, accessible and sustainable diets for all, but we are simultaneously facing huge global challenges.
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Microplastics: The Snowflakes of the Plastic World
Science writer Kerry Taylor-Smith takes a deep dive into the persistent problem of microplastics.
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MSG: The Misunderstood Sodium Substitute
MSG was given a rather unsavory reputation in the 1960s. But did MSG ever deserve its distasteful status, or is it simply just a misunderstood constituent of South Asian cuisine?
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The Emerging Crisis of “Forever” Chemicals
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have penetrated every corner of the globe. What do we know about them, why are they such a problem and do they really last “forever”? Science writer Kerry Taylor-Smith explores.
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