Author Archive
Sarah Zhang
Ideas
The End of the Pandemic Is Now in Sight
A year of scientific uncertainty is over. Two vaccines look like they will work, and more should follow.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
CIO Briefing
The Vaccine News That Really Matters
Soon COVID-19 vaccine makers will release early data from large clinical trials, and the results could be ambiguous.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Ideas
Vaccine Chaos Is Looming
The COVID-19 vaccines furthest along in clinical trials are the fastest to make, but they are also the hardest to deploy.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
CIO Briefing
Why the Coronavirus Hits Kids and Adults So Differently
COVID-19 is much less severe in children, and it could have to do with a child’s still-developing immune system.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Cybersecurity
People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps
How an obsolete medical device with a security flaw became a must-have for some patients with type 1 diabetes.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech
A DNA Company Wants You to Help Catch Criminals
Family Tree DNA was criticized for secretly working with the FBI. Now it’s explicitly asking potential customers to help law enforcement.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech
You Should Be Worried About Your DNA Privacy
DNA databases are just the beginning.
- By Sarah Zhang and Vishkha Darbha, The Atlantic
Data
How a Tiny Website Became the Police's Go-To Genealogy Database
“I never expected anything like this.”
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Data
The 'Genome Hacker' Who Mapped a 13-Million-Person Family Tree
Huge crowdsourced genealogy databases are inspiring new genetics research.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Data
Google Taught an AI That Sorts Cat Photos to Analyze DNA
And it’s very good at it.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
CIO Briefing
What Happens When You Put 500,000 People's DNA Online
Huge genetic databases are changing how scientists study disease.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
CIO Briefing
The Genomic Revolution Reaches the City Crime Lab
How will law enforcement handle the deluge of new information available from DNA?
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech
China’s Artificial-Intelligence Boom
The country’s universities and tech giants are starting to surpass American ones when it comes to researching and implementing AI.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech
The Low-Tech Way to Colonize Mars
NASA researchers are modeling Martian settlements after early American colonists.
- By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic