Cici Zhang
A science writer hoping to reignite your curiosity
"Either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."
Citrus greening is killing the world’s orange trees. Scientists are racing to help
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Chemical & Engineering News (Cover Story)
To save a billion-dollar industry from the infectious disease, also known as huanglongbing, researchers are turning to gene editing, RNA interference, and other advanced techniques
The tale of 2 asteroid sample-return missions
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Chemical & Engineering News (Cover Story)
OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2 are set to collect data that could reveal clues to the origins of life, as well as aid in planetary defense and resource mining
Drug companies routinely tweak their clinical trial designs in ways that seem designed to obtain opportune results. Very often, the FDA doesn’t mind.
Tweaking Drug Trial Design in the Hunt for the FDA’s Green Light
Undark Magazine
Her company, MicroByre, is proving that wild microbes can be engineered to produce useful chemicals
Sarah Richardson on prestige publishing: ‘Luckily, I don’t give a crap about that’
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Chemical & Engineering News
Why do minority patients have a much harder time finding a match for bone marrow transplants?