On genomic literacy
The age-old story of Watson and Crick discovering the double helix that eventually came to be referred to as DNA is just that now—old. DNA is a term that gets tossed around now with the frequency that Lady Gaga changes her hairstyle. There’s an online news service called DNAinfo, an ongoing (and often misinformed) debate over genetically-modified crops, and an increasing awareness of hereditary traits and medical conditions (see Angelina Jolie’s virally shared New York Times
On getting a promotion (and finally realizing a career)
When I started working as a medical writer in 2011, I had basic-to-minimal knowledge of cardiology. I had been employed previously in the grants department of another health nonprofit and a plethora of internship experience I had worked hard to achieve throughout college, but no concrete direction with regard to where I wanted to go. Writing was high on the priority list and so was science, but I had only the slightest idea that I could ever combine the two into a full-time g