Articles
Below are links to some of the work I've written and edited, including news articles, feature articles, and press releases. Most links take you to the writing in HTML format, but some take you to a page where you can download a PDF. I can also mail or fax hard copies of samples. To learn more about my books, please see my Books page.
The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine
Pieces of Ourselves: Some bonds are stronger than others
ASU Research Magazine
Tiny Tasty Tunes: Sensing the World One Molecule at a Time
Nurturing Future Scientists (Sidebar: Finding an Undergraduate Research Niche)
Working Class Bacteria (Sidebar: Redox Reactions)
Greedy to Get the Bugs Out (Sidebar: The Human Factor)
Harvey Mudd College Bulletin
Biomedical Computation Review
The following articles appeared in the "News Bytes" section of Biomedical Computation Review. The sections are available as PDF downloads.
Summer 2006
"Modeling Sex's (Evolutionary) Appeal"
"Finding the Right Molecule for the Job"
Spring 2006
"Where Proteins Go To Work"
"Smoking Addiction Explained"
Boalt Hall Transcript
What Makes for Good Lawyering? (PDF download of article from site)
Stanford Medicine Magazine
It takes patients: Clinical trials researchers straddle worlds of research and patient care
DNA Cocktails and Dreams: Patient-specific treatment for autoimmune diseases might soon be reality
Press releases
New Study Suggests Virus Uses Pressure to Sense when Full of DNA
Stanford researcher shows flu shot benefits outweigh costs in healthy young adults
Stanford researchers study controversial drug as treatment for psychotic major depression
Researchers shed light on bacterial infection linked to ulcers and stomach cancer
Space-based missile defense systems could jeopardize astronomical research and space exploration