Ashley Juavinett

Neuroscience

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Ashley Juavinett is a lover of neurons of all shapes and sizes (although honestly, big pyramidal neurons are the best), a science writer, and a musician. She currently works as a postdoctoral research fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (New York).

2 reports

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Opening Our Minds

Join five scientists as they explain the research behind new psychedelic treatments for mental illnesses

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You Don't Know GMOs

We've gathered a team of geneticists, biologists, and environmental scientists to bring you the most up-to-date report on the science, history, and safety of genetically-modified organisms.

10 articles

Neuroscientist Kale Edmiston on why biological bases of being trans shouldn't matter

'We should havenโ€™t to prove that weโ€™re really a certain gender in order to be treated like a person'

Building a Massive scicomm effort

Weโ€™re talking to other scicomm leaders to understand how we can improve our efforts

It's time to focus on the connection between biology and consciousness

Neuroscientists must be willing to develop imperfect descriptions of how we work

5 facts about Frances Hamerstrom, wildlife biologist, hunter, and savior of the prairie chicken

As a kid, she dissected blue jays and built a garden whose path was lined with poison ivy

People ask about my experiments on mice. The answers are โ€ฆ complicated

Behind most breakthroughs is animal research. Let's stop pretending otherwise

5 facts about Marjorie Lee Browne, African American math prodigy and pioneer

Breaking through barriers of race and gender, she pursued the beauty of pure math

Why designer mental health drugs are still elusive

The fruitless, decade-long search for DREADDs has a silver lining

Want to learn how brains go awry? First, we must learn how they work

We set out to make neurons deep in the brain glow bright so we could see their role in vision

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Life on the savannah is a duel between agility and strength

Survival of the fittest evolves in the genes

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Simulating evolution helped scientists design a better virus

It sounds like an arcane superpower. It boils down to random mutation and selection

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Scientists found an entire herpes virus genome hiding out in fish DNA

Researchers have made a bizarre discovery involving transposons, parasitic DNA found in fish (and humans)

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