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The Transmitter
Giorgia Guglielmi is a freelance writer covering the life sciences, biomedicine and science policy. Her stories have appeared in Nature, Science, NOVA Next and other publications.
Giorgia has an M.Sc. in science writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in biology from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
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From sex differences in Alzheimer’s disease to enduring citation bias, experts weighed in on important scientific and practical issues in neuroscience.
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