
Lily Burton
Science Reporting Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of ScienceLily Burton reports on science as the 2024 AAAS Mass Media Fellow at ¹ÏÉñapp. She is a PhD candidate in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the University of Chicago and has written for Microbites, Science Unsealed and The Forefront, covering everything from machine learning to stories of patients surviving cancer. She also works with organizations like ComSciCon to host events for grad students in STEM fields to develop their science communication skills.
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Researchers at Duke University Medical Center published the study showing a blood test can predict which patients will develop knee osteoarthritis up to eight years before it would show up on an X-ray.
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Professional coaching for physicians is a new resource to help support doctors. But the field is unstandardized and unregulated.
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The robotic exoskeleton can adapt to a person’s movements and reduce the amount of effort needed for basic activities using AI training with a human simulation.
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The "Amazing Pollinators" exhibit at The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh teaches visitors about threats pollinators face.