Katie Cottingham

Sample clips:

‘Fearsome’ Saber-Toothed Cats Needed Their Baby Teeth and Mommies, Too

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/fearsome-saber-toothed-cats-needed-their-baby-teeth-and-mommies-too-180984937/

Making AI and Cybersecurity More Accessible

https://www.science.org/content/article/making-ai-and-cybersecurity-more-accessible

Solving a 50-Year-Old Mystery Could Lead to Neurodegenerative Disease Treatments

https://www.hhmi.org/news/solving-50-year-old-mystery-could-lead-neurodegenerative-disease-treatments

Egyptian Eyeliner May Have Warded Off Disease

https://bit.ly/EgyptianEyeliner

You can find even more links to clips below!

info Subjects

General

Fitness & Nutrition
Food & Drink
Health & Medicine
Nature & Environment
Pets
Science
Technology

Specialties

Biology, Medicine, Chemistry, Materials Science, Cell Biology, Genetics, Epigenetics, Proteomics, Molecular Biology, Paleontology, Biochemistry

notepad Skills

  • Advertorials
  • Articles
  • Blog posts
  • Communications strategy
  • Conference/meeting coverage
  • Content marketing
  • Editing
  • Feature writing
  • Media relations
  • News
  • News releases
  • Podcasts (writing)
  • Profiles
  • Project management
  • Publication management
  • Publicity
  • Q&A
  • Technical writing

notepad Writing Credits

Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, ScienceNow, EpiGenie, Science News Explores, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, AAAS/Science Custom Publishing, National Academy of Sciences, American Oil Chemists’ Society, American Chemical Society, University of Baltimore, BrainWise

star Awards, Honors, Appointments

Communicator Award, Excellence
For the AAAS advertorial “Reframing the conversation around education and crime to transform lives”

Muse Creative Award
For writing an article included in a branded content campaign on empowering chemical technical professionals

ACS Catalyst Award
For being part of the American Chemical Society team that launched a new journal called ACS Central Science

Trade, Association, and Business Publications International, Honorable Mention
For the American Chemical Society story “A controversial data set stirs up even more controversy” (PDF available upon request)

NIH Fellows Award
For research excellence at the National Institutes of Health

Selected Work

As author, unless indicated otherwise.

Reframing the conversation around education and crime to transform lives

Advertorial on education and crime prevention work being done at Morgan State University, an HBCU.

 

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‘Fearsome’ Saber-Toothed Cats Needed Their Baby Teeth and Mommies, Too

A species of saber-toothed cats had two sets of sabers and unusual lower jaw anatomy while they were young cubs. These data suggest that the cats delayed adulting with a long weaning period.

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Egyptian Eyeliner May Have Warded Off Disease

News story on research that shows ancient Egyptians added lead to their cosmetics.

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Fact or Fiction: Artificial Reproductive Technologies Make Sick Kids

An examination of whether artificial reproductive technology results in more children with diseases or conditions than natural conception. (A PDF of the story is available upon request.)

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A better wig — with chemistry

News brief on a journal paper about a new way to make wigs more durable and long lasting.

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How Pregnancy Changes the Brain

Feature article on what we know about pregnancy-related brain changes.

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DM-Seq: A DM You’ll Want to Slide Into for Direct Methylation Sequencing of Cytosines

News article on a new epigenetics technique that maps methylation better than many other existing methods.

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Raman spectroscopy for edible oil analysis

Detecting olive oil fraud, spoilage.

(INFORM June 2024, Vol. 35 (6), pg. 8-12. PDF is available upon request.)

 

 

Organoids: Today’s research tool, tomorrow’s organ transplant solution

Advertorial on organoid research being done at Cincinnati Children's.

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Programming Plants

Programming plants with synthetic biology could help them survive climate change.

(INFORM April 2024, Vol. 35 (4), pg. 14-16. PDF is available upon request.)

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