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Covers:  genetics, cell, molecular, developmental and microbiology, evolution, immunology, epigenetics, RNA biology, CRISPR, gene editing and gene therapy, genetic genealogy, genetic archaeology, domestication
Doesn't Cover: business, technology, animal behavior, physical sciences
Senior writer covering molecular biology for @ScienceNews Geek. Lover of science fact and fiction. Standard disclaimers may apply. Mileage will vary. She/her

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Tina Saey’s Biography

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Tina Hesman Saey is a scientist-turned-science-journalist who covers molecular biology for Science News magazine. She grew up in Bladen, Nebraska. Hers was the last class to graduate from Bladen Public High School before the school consolidated with one from a neighboring town. She went to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she majored in biology and graduated with honors. Saey spent a year as a Fulbright scholar in Goettingen, Germany, studying microbiology before returning to the Unite…

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What I actually learned about my family after trying 5 DNA ancestry tests

What I actually learned about my family after trying 5 DNA ancestry tests

Commercials abound for DNA testing services that will help you learn where your ancestors came from or connec…

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How to make organ transplants last

How to make organ transplants last

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Keeping an irregular schedule may affect how many calories you burn.

Keeping an irregular schedule may affect how many calories you burn.

Timing is everything. Even how many calories a person burns while at rest depends on the hour. People burn ab…

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A mashup of yeast and E. coli shows how mitochondria might have evolved

A mashup of yeast and E. coli shows how mitochondria might have evolved

Yeast intentionally stuffed with bacteria may teach scientists something about the origins of cells' powerhou…

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Genealogy databases could reveal the identity of most Americans

Genealogy databases could reveal the identity of most Americans

Protecting the anonymity of publicly available genetic data, including DNA donated to research projects, may …

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Gene editing creates mice with two biological dads for the first time

Gene editing creates mice with two biological dads for the first time

For the first time, researchers have created mice with two dads. No female contributed to the rodents' geneti…

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Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science

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Soviet scientists in the 1930s knew what could happen if they bucked the party line: denunciation, firing and banishment from the scientific establishment, even imprisonment and death. Political reprisals against those who opposed the views of dictator Joseph Stalin and his followers — and the dubious science they endorsed — led to the starvation of millions, as well as to decades of lost progress in fields from agriculture to molecular biology.
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This microbe turns into a cannibalistic ‘Hulk’

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A newly discovered microbe is like a mini version of the Hulk. Euplotes gigatrox is a single-celled protist that resembles an insect. It grazes on bacteria and other tiny microbes. Sometimes a small number of the protists balloon into “supergiants” more than twice their regular size. The huge cells cannibalize their smaller, genetically identical brethren.
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A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading

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WASHINGTON — Microbiologists are used to looking at gross pictures and hearing scary statistics. So when a moderator of a session on emerging fungal infections at the ASM Microbe meeting uttered the words “somewhat terrifying,” it caught my attention. He was referring to a sexually transmitted skin infection that is becoming increasingly drug resistant. But what came next was even more horrifying to me.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

My first paying journalism gig was an internship at the Dallas Morning News, but my 1st real job was at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I learned to type on an electric typewriter and have even used a manual one.

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