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Amedeo Tumolillo

Web Producer, Spectrum

Amedeo Tumolillo produces Spectrum content and commissions art for the site.

Before joining the foundation in 2012, Amedeo produced online content for The New York Times out of their New York and Hong Kong offices. He also worked as a reporter and videographer and then web director at The Albuquerque Tribune in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Amedeo holds an M.S.J. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

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December 2012

Most-viewed articles of 2012

by  /  20 December 2012

A list of the ten stories that most caught our readers’ attention this year.

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Hot topics in 2012

by  /  20 December 2012

New candidate genes, drugs in development and diagnostic debates were just a few of the themes that garnered intense interest this year.

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Notable papers of 2012

by  /  20 December 2012

Among a wealth of exciting research, ten sets of papers made an impact this year.

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Outlook: Autism

by  /  6 December 2012

As recently as the mid-1990s, autism was thought to be a rare disorder that led to severe mental disability. But since then its reported incidence has ballooned, and it is thought to encompass conditions that vary widely in character and severity. Still, its causes, treatments and even definition remain to be pieced together.

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