Brooke Borel

Science writer, journalist, author.

Brooke Borel is a science writer, journalist, and author. She’s a contributing editor at Popular Science and she has also written for the Atlantic, Slate, and PBS’s NOVA Next, among others. Her first book, Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World published in 2015.

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Spectrum

By Brooke Borel

19 October 2015

19 min read

Of mice and women

A new government mandate requires researchers to include females in their animal studies — or explain why they don't. What will this mean for autism research?

Spectrum

Of mice and women

By Brooke Borel

19 October 2015 | 19 min read

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