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biotech and beyond
The Clean Meat Industry Has a Dirty Little Secret Neo.Life, November 2018
Brain-invading tapeworm that eluded doctors spotted by new DNA test
Scientific American, 2017
Prenatal testing is about to make being pregnant a lot more stressful
Quartz, 2016
The Changing Face of Cystic Fibrosis
Genome, 2015
This Scientist Might End Animal Cruelty Mother Jones, 2015
Inside the Goth Chicken
Nautilus, 2015
Why It’s Better to be Female
Nautilus, 2015
Natural Defenses
Genome, 2015
An Unlikely Cure Signals New Hope for Cancer
Nautilus, 2014
I Contain Multitudes Quanta, 2014
Will new prenatal tests scare parents into bad decisions?
Al Jazeera America, 2014
data, big & small
How Much is Your DNA Worth? Neo.Life, September 2017
More research volunteers are getting their medical test results. Should we cheer—or worry?
Stat News, 2016
Our Data Must Become Free Wired/Backchannel, 2016
Big Data Helps Find the Achilles Heel of Cancer
Nautilus 2015
plants & beasts
Dogs: A Love Story Popular Science, Spring 2020
Meet the Deep-Diving, Ear-Splitting 4,500-Pound Rock Star of Año Nuevo Bay Nature, 2020
The Social Network Audubon, 2018
Seven Creatures With Skills That Easily Beat Humans Popular Science, 2018
A New Finding Raises an Old Question: Where and When Did Life Begin? Popular Science, 2017
Welcome Back, Otters
Bay Nature, 2016Meet the Bird Braniacs: American Crow Audubon, 2016
When Pseudosex is Better Than the Real Thing
Nautilus 2016Where Animals Come From
Quanta, 2014Listen to the Plants
Slate, 2014The Secret Language of Plants Quanta, 2013 (Reprinted in Wired)
human nature & nurture
Eight Trailblazers Changing the Climate Conversation Audubon, 2019
Can Training Help People Unlearn a Lifetime of Racial Bias?
Nautilus, 2016
Young, Attractive, and Totally Not Into Having Sex Wired, 2015
Would Telepathy Help?
Aeon, 2015
Brilliant Impersonators Aeon, 2014
The Second Coming of Sigmund Freud
Discover, 2014
Meet the Super Taskers
Psychology Today, 2014
Cooperation is What Makes Us Human
Nautilus, 2013
The Unlocked Mind
Discover, 2011
diseases & cures
A Radically Simple Idea Will Let Us Catch Cancer Before It’s Cancer
Backchannel 2016
Chikungunya may soon arrive in the US
Al Jazeera America, 2014
Defeating the superbugs
Al Jazeera America, 2014