Elaine Vitone

Caption: PRX default User image
  • Username: elaine_vitone
  • Writer/Producer, Pitt Medcast | Senior Editor, Pitt Med magazine
  • Role: Internet/Multimedia Staff

Portfolio

Piece image

Itch (08:25)
From: Elaine Vitone

In this multilayered soundscape, the University of Pittsburgh's Sarah Ross explains the emerging neurobiology of itch, the least understood of our somatic senses. Music, ...
Caption: Some tinnitus sufferers experience their phantom frequencies as buzzing or chirping sounds, like the song of a cicada (here, converted mathematically into graph form)., Credit: Photo Researchers

Tinnitus (09:40)
From: Elaine Vitone

This dramatic soundscape uses interviews, narration, sound effects, and music to explain the emerging neuroscience of tinnitus - a ringing, buzzing, hissing, or other noise ...
Caption: Adult stem cells (green) and corneal cells (blue) one month after applying to the eye., Credit: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Cornea-copia (13:23)
From: Elaine Vitone

Corneal blindness affects millions worldwide. A husband-and-wife team at the University of Pittsburgh has been working toward the dream of regrowing new corneal tissue for ...
Piece image

Imperfect Pitch: the promises and perils of personal genomics (29:20)
From: Elaine Vitone

Our guests, Jeremy Berg (editor of Science magazine) and Mylynda Massart (a primary care physician with a special interest in genetics), discuss how the heavy consumer pitch ...
Piece image

Imperfect Pitch: the promises and perils of personal genomics (29:20)
From: Elaine Vitone

Our guests, Jeremy Berg (editor of Science magazine) and Mylynda Massart (a primary care physician with a special interest in genetics), discuss how the heavy consumer pitch ...