all recent publications
(my favorites are the ones with images)
genetics & genomics
Brain-invading tapeworm that eluded doctors spotted by new DNA test
Scientific American, 2017
Prenatal testing is about to make being pregnant a lot more stressful
Quartz, 2016
The Changing Face of Cystic Fibrosis
Genome, 2015
This Scientist Might End Animal Cruelty
Mother Jones, 2015
Inside the Goth Chicken
Nautilus 2015
Why It’s Better to be Female
Nautilus 2015
Natural Defenses
Genome 2015
An Unlikely Cure Signals New Hope for Cancer
Nautilus 2014
I Contain Multitudes
Quanta 2014
Will new prenatal tests scare parents into bad decisions?
Al Jazeera America, 2014
data, big & small
More research volunteers are getting their medical test results. Should we cheer—or worry?
Stat News, 2016
Our Medical Data Must Become Free
Backchannel 2016
Big Data Helps Find the Achilles Heel of Cancer
Nautilus 2015
plants & beasts
Welcome Back, Otters
Bay Nature, 2016
Meet the Bird Braniacs: American Crow
Audubon 2016
When Pseudosex is Better Than the Real Thing
Nautilus 2016
Where Animals Come From
Quanta 2014
Listen to the Plants
Slate 2014
The Secret Language of Plants
Quanta 2013 (reprinted in Wired)
human nature & nurture
Can Training Help People Unlearn a Lifetime of Racial Bias?
Nautilus 2016
Would Telepathy Help?
Aeon, 2015
Brilliant Impersonators
Aeon 2014
The Second Coming of Sigmund Freud
Discover 2014
Meet the Super Taskers
Psychology Today, 2014
Cooperation is What Makes Us Human
Nautilus 2013
The Unlocked Mind
Discover 2011
diseases & cures
A Radically Simple Idea Will Let Us Catch Cancer Before It’s Cancer
Backchannel 2016
Chikungunya may soon arrive in the US
Al Jazeera America, 2014
Defeating the superbugs
Al Jazeera America, 2014