Katharine Gammon


Katharine Gammon is an award-winning independent science journalist based in Santa Monica, California. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, The Guardian, Undark, Popular Science, MIT Technology Review, Nature, Hakai and beyond.

From this contributor

Spectrum

Spotted around the web: Mapping histones; COVID-19 births; acetaminophen lawsuits

By Jill Adams, Katharine Gammon, Peter Hess, Nicholette Zeliadt
4 November 2022 | 3 min read
Photograph of a parent crossing a city street with two children
Spectrum Microphone

A mix of common and rare variants shapes autism inheritance patterns

By Katharine Gammon
4 November 2022 | 3 min read
Three scans of zebrafish brains.
Spectrum Microphone

Zebrafish point to new gene involved in brain overgrowth, autism

By Katharine Gammon
1 November 2022 | 3 min read
People in a medical office, seen through a window with reflections.
Spectrum Microphone

Lags in genetic testing, variant reporting hinder autism research

By Katharine Gammon
28 October 2022 | 4 min read

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