Jeanne Erdmann is a freelance medical science writer based near St. Louis, Missouri. She loves to write about the adventures of cells as they go about their day, building bone;  fending off cancer; chatting with bacteria; fighting viruses. Her work has appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nature, the HHMI Bulletin, Science News, Scientific American’s website, Chemistry & Biology, and Cure.

Jeanne is also the primary caregiver to her 95-year-old mother, who’s in the early stages of dementia. This experience has inspired Jeanne’s blog, Repetitive Stress.