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Sarah Zhang

Staff Writer

Taking Antidepressants While Pregnant May Raise Autism Risks, But It's Complicated

New Horizons' Sharpest Photos of Pluto, Now in Color

Republicans Are Trying to Sneak an E-Cigarette Exemption Past the FDA

Biologists Are Engineering Kill Switches for GM Microbes

The Japanese Barely Eat Whale. So Why Do They Keep Whaling?

Movies of Cold War Bomb Tests Hold Nuclear Secrets

Crispr Is Getting Better. Now It's Time to Ask the Hard Ethical Questions

Microbiome Startup uBiome Will Sequence Poop for the CDC

This Vaccine Can Protect You From Anthrax—After Exposure

The 'Gene Drive' That Builds a Malaria-Proof Mosquito

Nola the Northern White Rhino's Death Leaves Just Three on Earth

We Blew It With Ebola. Scientists Don't Want That to Happen Again

Cheap DNA Sequencing Is Here. Writing DNA Is Next

A Once Powerful Antibiotic Goes the Way of All Flesh

Argentina Has More Women in Science—But It Hasn't Fixed Sexism

Intrexon's Billionaire CEO Is Betting on the Most Controversial GMOs

Behind the Scenes at the Breakthrough Prizes, the Glitzy Oscars for Science

Y Combinator's Sam Altman Is Bullish on Biotech Startups

A Profile of a Famous Chinese-American Scientist Opens on ... Chicken Feet

Biotech's New Plan: Nobody Say 'GMO'