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Marion Renault

Freelance Writer

Marion Renault is a freelance science, health, and environmental journalist based in Grenoble, France. Their work — which often focuses on extinction, ecology, caregiving, and emergency medicine — has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, the New Republic, STAT, Slate, the New Yorker, Wired, and more. Their 2022 New Yorker story, “A French village’s radical vision of a good life with Alzheimer’s,” will appear in the 2023 edition of Best American Science and Nature Writing.

Latest articles by Marion Renault

Future Perfect
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Future Perfect

The quixotic, centuries-long search for blood alternatives is finally succeeding.

By Marion Renault