Stories by Gabriela Saldivia

Gabriela Saldivia is a freelance audio producer, editor and sound engineer. She currently works for Duolingo, Patreon, and NPR’s Next Gen Radio. Previously, she produced podcasts at NPR, including Up First and Hidden Brain.

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HealthFebruary 27, 2025

What Was It like to Be a Female Doctor during the Ming Dynasty?

A Chinese medical textbook published in 1511 led to a novel about an all-but-forgotten female doctor who practiced during the Ming Dynasty

Gabriela Saldivia, Carol Sutton Lewis, The Lost Women of Science Initiative

An illustration containing an artists rendition of a DNA double helix in the background and book reading "Breaking Through: My Life in Science"

HealthJanuary 9, 2025

Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize–Winning Work on mRNA Was Long Ignored—And Led to COVID Vaccines

Despite decades of doubt and dismissal, biochemist Katalin Karikó never gave up on the research that gave us mRNA COVID vaccines in record time

Katie Hafner, Deborah Unger, Gabriela Saldivia, The Lost Women of Science Initiative