http://www.moniquebrouillette.com/about daily 0.75 2025-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/750d67fc-29c4-43c7-893f-349cd2094b3f/Restaurant+Mug.jpeg About - About me Monique Brouillette is an independent journalist. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, TIME, The Boston Globe, WIRED, Popular Mechanics, JAMA, Nature, Science, Quanta, and Downeast Magazine. Monique received a Pulitzer Grant in 2022 to travel to southcentral Alaska and report on the efforts of the Alaska Native Tribes to regain authority over the conservation efforts on their lands. She has also appeared on NPR's All Things Considered to talk about animal spillover events and how they contribute to pandemics. Monique has a bachelor's degree in Biology and a Master of Science in Public Health Communication from Tufts University Medical School. She spent several years as a researcher in genetics and neuroscience labs at MIT. 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Contact me! monique.brouillette@gmail.com http://www.moniquebrouillette.com/clips daily 1.0 2025-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/c6ec4393-54da-45a0-8e2b-8206f83ec3fd/Logo+Sci+Am.png Clips - Your Immune System Evolves to Fight Coronavirus Variants Antibodies can change to counter new forms of the shape-shifting virus, research hints https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/7b86b4d6-efd1-4229-b2f0-171dc33b1937/Logo+Quanta+.png Clips - Embryo Cells Set Patterns for Growth by Pushing and Pulling Patterns that guide the development of feathers and other features can be set by mechanical forces in the embryo, not just by gradients of chemicals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/7e6b885c-029d-48d6-92c1-60b8c677d671/Logo+Sci+Am.png Clips - Biden vs. Trump: What a Difference Two Years Make for Treating COVID Two presidents’ contrasting COVID experiences illustrate the moonshot-caliber medical achievements that let many patients be treated at home instead of in an ICU https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/089ab3ee-617c-4afd-a170-6957ea0ac538/Logo+Pop+Mech.png Clips - How Some Animals Can Survive—and Even Thrive—After Being Exposed to Nuclear Radiation Nearly 40 years of research into the contaminated area around Chernobyl is providing some clues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/0b231bac-e705-4b81-ae0e-de2585cb4ba2/Logo+Pop+Mech.png Clips - Understanding Animal Hibernation Could Change What We Know About Human Health Hibernators can quickly recover from heart attacks, muscle degradation, and other incredible bodily stress. Why can’t humans? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/9af54254-a88d-4500-a1c2-c4015f22f563/Logo+Gothamist+.png Clips - Germs Spill From Animals To Humans All The Time—Even In New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/f51714cd-0dd9-42af-ace4-8d6089eda5d4/undark+alaska+story.jpg Clips - In Alaska, Tribal Governments Push for Larger Conservation Role Featured Story: Supported by the Pulitzer Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/230e8a6d-4317-4fdf-9357-5574799dee94/Logo+Pop+Mech.png Clips - Why Do You Get More Colds in the Winter? We Asked the Experts There’s a valid reason for covering up in the cold, but it has more to do with keeping your nose warm than keeping your coat zipped up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/5b01a377-1a97-4728-bd7a-a69266fa2507/Logo+PNAS.png Clips - Gene length could be a critical factor in the aging of the genome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/262a5f49-f3da-450b-bf34-89528ce8b53c/Screenshot+2025-01-07+at+3.34.38%E2%80%AFPM.png Clips - Scientists find first evidence that butterflies crossed an ocean Researchers discovered painted ladies on a South American beach and then built a case that they started their journey in Europe or Africa.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/0e411538-aab6-4220-ba89-e5fb2e4c877a/Logo+Civil+Eats.png Clips - NOAA Is Rolling Out a Plan to Radically Expand Offshore Aquaculture. Not Everyone Is Onboard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/e14aa815-9370-4b3f-ad2b-a26b2d5be064/Quanta_AncientDNA.jpg Clips - Ancient DNA Yields Snapshots of Vanished Ecosystems QUANTA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/50d092f2-ae1c-46c9-8f63-e2eb77f90730/Misinformation+goes+viral.jpg Clips - Why misinformation about COVID-19’s origins keeps going viral NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/a2292096-074f-46cb-b03c-15bd4a2d65ce/Logo+Pop+Mech.png Clips - Nausea, Blisters, Organ Failure, and Cancer: Why the Side Effects of Radiation Poisoning Vary So Widely Radiation exposure remains a devastating hazard to human health, and a poignant reminder that nuclear disasters have lasting consequences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/19ef9dd1-f54d-4a7a-8287-b5936841f591/Logo+Nat+Geo.png Clips - A spritz instead of a jab? Future COVID-19 vaccines may go up your nose. Spurred by the pandemic, scientists are studying the benefits of intranasal vaccines and what makes them more potent than shots in the arm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/afb5727e-9e5c-47a7-ae44-4f47af20ba84/Logo+Quanta+.png Clips - Immune Cell Assassins Reveal Their Nurturing Side Don’t be misled by the bloodthirsty names of immune cells. Mounting research shows that the cells also fine-tune tissues and help the body heal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/e939308a-6a6b-42ad-8350-7b557571db4f/Logo+TIME.png Clips - What to Know About Abortion Pills Post-Roe As abortion access shrinks in the U.S., more people will likely turn to medication abortion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/adbf4107-8c53-4b1f-b977-b9c07974017c/Logo+Pop+Mech.png Clips - Considering Donating Your Body to Science? Read This First. Turns out, you have very little say in whether you become a medical school’s cadaver or a crash-test dummy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/715da974-4e89-462c-bc3a-e48d248499ca/Image+Connectomics+Quanta.png Clips - New Brain Maps Can Predict Behaviors QUANTA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/de834d5d-e3f4-46b0-aa2c-df855896a33c/Logo+Sci+Am.png Clips - Belugas Flirt and Fight by Morphing Their Squishy Forehead Scientists are putting together a catalog of communications from belugas’ forehead “melon” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/ed78745c-6a74-4e80-ae06-2bc8f1686dfc/permafrost.jpeg Clips - How microbes in permafrost could trigger a massive carbon bomb NATURE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/09a44c09-46bf-4aaa-bcde-04a600c13497/Logo+Jama.png Clips - Medical Schools Are Updating Their Curricula as Climate Change Becomes Impossible to Ignore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/055faaa7-a887-4c36-820a-b050034b9494/Logo+Pop+Mech.png Clips - Eradicating ‘Zombie Cells’ Could Be the Key to Anti-Aging New research into how to rid the body of these cells could stave off old age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/926783e1-6763-4bf2-a2bf-70e19c68b238/Logo+Nature.png Clips - Guide, don’t hide: reprogramming learning in the wake of AI As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integral to the world outside academia, universities face a crucial choice: to use or not to use. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/4e1ca559-967d-406f-b506-19cecf17d065/Logo+Sci+Am.png Clips - Abortion Restrictions Could Cause an Ob-Gyn Brain Drain With Roe v. Wade overturned, banning abortion in many states could lead to a large number of ob-gyns avoiding practicing there or failing to receive crucial medical training https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/f4cf79c4-9752-4a1a-b42b-6749ed9b3d20/Logo+Pop+Mech.png Clips - Gravity Could Be the Cause of Your IBS, According to This Doctor Gastroenterologist Brennan Spiegel theorizes that gravity may be a cause of irritable bowel syndrome—and possibly other health issues. http://www.moniquebrouillette.com/speaking daily 0.75 2023-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/1637329945358-42ZQVH2DE8UJ0L5QK4J8/Screen+Shot+2021-11-19+at+8.51.26+AM.png Speaking - What Germ Spillovers In New York Can Tell Us About The Hunt For COVID's Origins I was interviewed on All Things Considered about about germ spillover and pandemics on WNYC! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aba50cf75f9ee2c50710245/0d9183de-e86a-4d73-9167-983464f74d4c/RP+Healthcast+logo.jpg Speaking - COVID 19 Mapping the course of Infection In this week’s episode we speak with Monique Brouillette, from Scientific American who explains the varying stages a patient may go through after contracting the novel coronavirus — and the importance of receiving the proper treatment at each critical phase