María Carla Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD

María Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD, is a freelance scientific writer with more than a decade of research experience in molecular biology and gene therapy. She's also a reporter for Metroland at the Cambridge Times, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.

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María Carla Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD

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Battling Rabies and Beyond: A Molecular Epidemiologist’s Perspective of the Medical Laboratory Sciences

María Carla Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD

Texas State University Regents’ Professor Rodney E. Rohde, PhD, reminisces about how he found himself amid the 1990s Oral Rabies Vaccination Program as a first-generation university graduate

How a Medical Lab Scientist Became a Podcaster

María Carla Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD

In his podcast, Let's Talk Micro, Luis Plaza hopes to change the narrative of this hidden field

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A Pathologist’s Journey to Transfusion Medicine

María Carla Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD

What it takes to become a transfusion medicine specialist and manage one of life’s most precious resources

Illustration of the Nipah virus structure.

Nipah Virus Outbreak in India: Should the US and Canada Be Concerned?

María Carla Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD

University of Toronto and Vanderbilt University researchers discuss the likelihood of a Nipah virus outbreak in North America

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A “Whole Person” Approach to Histology

María Carla Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD

Pathologist and assistant professor Rebecca Waters, DO, on finding “zebras” and her osteopathic medicine background

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Bench to Classroom: An Unlikely Door into Teaching

María Carla Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD

How molecular genetics technologist Jean-Paul Nadeau, MSc, CMLT, became a clinical adjunct professor

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What Does It Take to Develop Cutting-Edge Diagnostics?

María Carla Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD

Aric Joneja, PhD, shares career insights and the skills needed to develop innovative molecular diagnostics

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Do COVID-19 Vaccines Affect Menstruation?

María Carla Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD

More evidence suggests that COVID-19 vaccines may impact menstrual cycles

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Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Clinical Microbiologist?

María Carla Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD

Scientist who helped decode SARS-CoV-2 in Canada shares what it takes to be a clinical microbiologist during a pandemic

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FDA-Approved Gene Therapy for Transfusion-Dependent Beta-Thalassemia Offers Potential Cure

María Carla Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD

Patients with transfusion-dependent beta-thal will soon be treated with lentiviral vector gene therapy Zynteglo to restore hemoglobin levels

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Hormones May Hold Key to Understanding Long COVID and Chronic Illness

María Carla Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD

Data from translational models show hormones play key but confusing role in long COVID

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COVID-19 Therapeutics Research Reaches New Highs

María Carla Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD

Monoclonal antibodies remain top option for COVID-19 treatment, but studies reveal a potential alternative

Highlights from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics’s 69th conference

An Innovative Year for Clinical Mass Spectrometry

María Carla Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD

Highlights from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics’s 69th conference