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Sarah Zhang

Staff Writer

Sarah Zhang is a staff writer at 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.

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.

Emerging Tech

You Should Be Worried About Your DNA Privacy

DNA databases are just the beginning.

Digital Government

The 'Genome Hacker' Who Mapped a 13-Million-Person Family Tree

Huge crowdsourced genealogy databases are inspiring new genetics research.

Digital Government

What Happens When You Put 500,000 People's DNA Online

Huge genetic databases are changing how scientists study disease.

Digital Government

The Genomic Revolution Reaches the City Crime Lab

How will law enforcement handle the deluge of new information available from DNA?

Artificial Intelligence

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.

Emerging Tech

The Low-Tech Way to Colonize Mars

NASA researchers are modeling Martian settlements after early American colonists.