Sarah Zhang is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers science, biotechnology, and genetics. Before joining The Atlantic in 2016, she was a staff writer at Wired. Zhang’s work has also appeared in The New York Times, Nature, Discover, and Method Quarterly, among other publications. She is the recipient of an American Association for the Advancement of Science Kavli Science Journalism Award. Zhang studied neurobiology and graduated from Harvard University in 2011.