Nicoletta Lanese is a staff writer for Live Science covering health and medicine, along with an assortment of biology, animal, environment and climate stories. Her work got featured in The Scientist, Science News, Space.com, The San Jose Mercury News, Monterey County Herald, Asahi Shimbun GLOBE+, Eos, BrainFacts.org, Mongabay and others.

Lanese completed Bachelor of Science in Psychology: Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Florida and a graduate certificate in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Previously, she served as a public information officer at Stanford University School of Medicine, UC San Francisco, and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.