Hyacinth Empinado

Multimedia Producer

Hyacinth Empinado, a multimedia producer, creates videos and animations for STAT. A biology graduate, Hyacinth worked as a lab technician before receiving her master’s degree in health and medical journalism from the University of Georgia, where she filmed videos about malaria research in Ghana and interned at WUGA-TV. Her accolades include a Gold Award at the 2014 LabTV Tribeca Video Awards Contest and Best in Festival at the 2015 Ripple Effect Film Project. Hyacinth enjoys watching sitcoms and collecting rainbow-colored things.

Video

CAR-T is a personalized attack on cancer. Here’s how it works

By Sharon Begley and Hyacinth Empinado

Video

WATCH: Why mucus is the ‘unsung hero’ of the human body

By Hyacinth Empinado

Health

WATCH: This guy did special effects for ‘Jurassic Park.’ He now makes mannequins for doctors

By Hyacinth Empinado

Video

Your scalp is the drums, your hand is the bass: making music from the body’s bacteria

By Hyacinth Empinado

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360-degree science: Go inside an Ebola lab. Be a dentist. Simulate surgery

By Hyacinth Empinado

In the Lab

Researchers use CRISPR to store a movie in living bacteria

By Hyacinth Empinado

In the Lab

The tiny fish that has helped unlock the mysteries of human disease

By Hyacinth Empinado

Adriana Landeros

Video

WATCH: She went from drug courier to inmate to researcher marching for science

By Hyacinth Empinado

In the Lab

Scientists develop a phone app that can track and analyze sperm

By Hyacinth Empinado

Camera Lucida GIF

In the Lab

Drawing life at its start, cell by cell

By Hyacinth Empinado

Jude and Reem

Health

In need of complex care, a Syrian child gets a second chance at a US hospital

By Hyacinth Empinado

Lung on a chip

In the Lab

This machine smokes up to 10 cigarettes at a time — in the name of science

By Hyacinth Empinado

Health

WATCH: See how a superbug is created

By Hyacinth Empinado

Tooth plaque GIF

In the Lab

WATCH: Your mouth is full of bacteria blooming. And it’s beautiful

By Hyacinth Empinado

Dr. Jack Maypole

Health

WATCH: This doctor’s cartoons bring smiles to young patients

By Bob Tedeschi and Hyacinth Empinado