2003 Science in Society Journalism Awards

Magazine

Kyla Dunn

“Cloning Trevor”

The Atlantic Monthly

Description:

The Atlantic Monthly’s Kyla Dunn won in the magazine category for “Cloning Trevor” an article about highly experimental work on the cells of a boy with a life-threatening genetic disorder. She gained access to the labs of Advanced Cell Technology, which is conducting human cloning research for medical purposes. The judges said the access allowed Dunn to get to know, “and to portray with some fine insight,” the three major scientists involved in the company’s ongoing human embryo cloning work. They added that her “accounting of the company’s scientific work was thorough and detailed — a real tour de force of explanatory journalism. Yet she also gave a full accounting of the political, religious, ethical, and financial threads that all are such important parts of the therapeutic cloning story and which played into the complex motivations of the scientists involved.”

Biography:

Kyla Dunn is a freelance science journalist living in Brooklyn. She is currently working on a new television series about science: NOVA’s Leading Edge. She has been a reporter and associate producer on documentaries for the PBS investigative series Frontline and CBS 60 Minutes II. Her opinion pieces have appeared in the Washington Post’s Sunday "Outlook" section.

After receiving her B.S. in biology from Yale, Dunn spent two years doing molecular biology research at Gilead Sciences — a biotech company in the San Francisco Bay Area. She then started a Ph.D. program in neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco, but left after the first year to pursue science journalism. An internship at the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco led to her first job as a reporter with PBS Frontline.

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