Sarah Zhang is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers health and science. Before joining the magazine in 2016, she was a staff writer at WIRED, and her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Nature, Discover, and Method Quarterly, among other publications. Zhang is the recipient of an American Association for the Advancement of Science Kavli Science Journalism Award and was a finalist for the Livingston Awards. She studied neurobiology and graduated from Harvard University in 2011.
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As the COVID-19 virus began to burn across the globe last year, virologist Nathan Wolfe had been studying how viruses cross over from wild animals to humans. He was also among...
The human microbiome—those trillions of microbes that occupy the gut and many other parts of the body—plays a complex and intricate role in inflammatory diseases. One intrigui...
Inflammation in the gut has been identified as one of the culprits in a long list of chronic illnesses, including colorectal cancer, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and Crohn’...