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Ryan Cross

Senior Science Correspondent

Ryan Cross is the Senior Science Correspondent at Endpoints News. He joined the newsroom in 2023 after covering biotech for The Boston Globe. Before that he was at Chemical & Engineering News where he led coverage of COVID vaccines, gene editing, and all things RNA. His work has also appeared in MIT Technology Review, Science, STAT, and more. Ryan is a graduate of Boston University's master's program in science journalism, and he studied genetics, neuroscience, and medicinal chemistry at Purdue University. He is from Indiana and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.