Jonathan D. Grinstein, PhD

Science Storyteller & Translator

After working in biotech research for more than a decade, acquiring a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience and a PhD in biomedical science in the process, I decided to hang up my lab coat, goggles, and gloves. In my last few years working in the lab, I took a step back from the bench and became interested in the seemingly limitless world of biotechnology. This field is helping people fight rare and debilitating diseases, live longer, healthier, and happier, reduce our impact on the environment, feed the hungry, use cleaner energy, and make industrial manufacturing more efficient. Now, using words and microphones, I’ll guide you through this vast landscape of innovation.

Currently, I am a Senior Editor at Mary Anne Liebert Publishers, writing feature articles for several in-house outlets, including magazines Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN) and Inside Precision Medicine as well as GEN Biotechnology, and producing a podcast that is currently in development.

Selected Writing
Playing God with Pork
Swallow the Micro-Robot
Shooting for Longevity and the Stars
*There’s a lot more where that came from

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Actualization

Hey all,

I want to share with you what I have been working on the past year or so. You’ll find a list of articles below about the brain and genetics, as well as how our understanding of these concepts can make us better people both at work and in our personal lives.

Stay safe, take care of yourself and others around you, and keep being part of this human experience, with all of us together.

Neuroleadership Institute

Cultivate Your Growth Mindset to Thrive Through Crisis | May 20, 2020

3 Psychological Habits to Deliver What Matters During a Crisis | May 7, 2020

How to Be Optimistic and Realistic During the COVID-19 Pandemic | April 24, 2020

Focusing the Public Sector in a Telework World | March 24, 2020

What the Challenger Disaster Teaches Us About Speaking Up In A New Era Of SpaceflightFebruary 27, 2020

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

 Expanding the CRISPR Toolbox | March 1, 2020

June Lab Delivers CRISPR Safety Message in Cancer Clinical Trial | February 6, 2020

How to Use CRISPR for Site-Specific Epigenetic Editing in the Nervous System | November 13, 2019

Medium

How To Synthesize Stable Lifeforms For The Long Run | September 05, 2019

Is Sexual Orientation Encoded In Our DNA? | August 29, 2019

Scientific American

A New Way to Detect Parkinson’s—by Smell | April 10, 2019

The One Change That Boosts a High School’s Academic Performance | February 12, 2019

A New Connection between the Gut and the Brain | December 5, 2018

How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer’s Brain | October 16, 2018

Science 101

Mindfulness meditation mends mild cognitive impairment | November 27, 2019

This is your brain on Black Friday | November 26, 2019

The race to stop cat allergies | October 29, 2019

AI learns to solve Rubik’s Cube without human help | October 29, 2019

Smartphones and Fitbits can spot loneliness in its tracks | October 2, 2019

Human sexes use their whole genomes distinctively | August 28, 2019

Athletes make performance enhancing gut microbes | August 13, 2019

Brain stimulation revives working memory in older adults | July 18, 2019

Becoming plastic people: a survey on microplastics consumption | July 18, 2019

Spores squash malaria mosquitos with spider venom | June 13, 2019

Seeing the twilight zone in technicolor through deep sea fish eyes | June 6, 2019

Seaworm species recently evolved the ability to regenerate heads — brains included | June 3, 2019

Sounding out ear infections with smartphones and paper | May 28, 2019

How to artificially implant a memory, ‘Inception’-style | May 20, 2019

The brain’s unique ‘drain system’ could flush Alzheimer’s | May 13, 2019

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