Sarah Zhang
The Atlantic
Berkeley, CA, United States
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How Much Would You Pay to Save Your Cat’s Life?
For $15,000, you can get your pet a new kidney. → Read More
What Europe’s COVID Wave Means for the U.S.
New variants are coming. How worried should we be? → Read More
Is Cord-Blood Banking Worth It?
Umbilical blood can be a valuable treatment for rare diseases. But that doesn’t mean you need to pay thousands of dollars to bank your baby’s. → Read More
How Long Can the Coronavirus Keep Reinfecting Us?
No one knows exactly what this will look like—only that it’s guaranteed to keep happening. → Read More
How the End of Roe Would Change Prenatal Care
Genetic testing is a routine part of pregnancy. Abortion restrictions are already shifting how doctors talk about the results. → Read More
The COVID Strategy America Hasn’t Really Tried
The clearest way to reduce deaths is to push to vaccinate more of the elderly—yes, still! → Read More
The Human Genome Is—Finally!—Complete
The Human Genome Project left 8 percent of our DNA unexplored. Now, for the first time, those enigmatic regions have been revealed. → Read More
What Killed These Bald Eagles? After 25 Years, We Finally Know.
A perfect confluence of events created a stealth killer. → Read More
The Last Children of Down Syndrome
Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning. → Read More
What a Negative COVID-19 Test Really Means
We know very little about how reliable tests are for people who don’t feel sick. → Read More
Rats Have Not Changed. We Have.
Sheltering in place produced a “natural experiment” for urban wildlife. → Read More
America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms
Inside the U.S. and Panama’s long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease. → Read More
America Needs Plasma From COVID-19 Survivors Now
People who have recovered from the disease have antibodies that might help those still suffering from it. → Read More
After 2,000 Years, These Seeds Have Finally Sprouted
Six date seeds as old as the Dead Sea Scrolls are now flourishing as trees on a kibbutz. → Read More
What Happens to Meat When You Freeze It for 35,000 Years
In any case, DNA analysis of meat from the 1951 dinner eventually proved it was none of the above. It wasn’t even prehistoric at all. Its DNA matched green sea turtle, a modern and living species. As for the 1901 banquet, well, that couldn’t have been mammoth either. “All stories published in newspapers of this country of a dinner in St. Petersburg where the meat of the Beresovca mammoth was… → Read More
The Secret Identity of a Coyote-Like Creature
A photographer began shooting unusual-looking coyotes on Galveston Island. They turned out to be descended from a very rare wolf species. → Read More
The Patient Who Finally Knows Why Her UTIs Won’t Go Away
Urinary-tract infections were once easy to cure. Then they started becoming resistant to antibiotics. → Read More
What Tick Saliva Does to the Human Body
Ticks use their saliva to create a “lake of blood” inside their hosts. → Read More
The Hospital Is Too Damn Loud
An average hospitalized patient endures 350 alarms each day. → Read More
Why Archaeologists Are Studying 10,000-Year-Old Urine
The history of animal domestication might be recorded in ancient pee. → Read More