Journalist, author, editor.
Drug scandals in sport would be nothing compared to the potential for genetic engineering to create “super-athletes”. Christie Aschwanden investigates
New Scientist, January 15, 2000.
This appears to be the first media report about gene doping — genetic engineering to enhance athletic performance.
Managing to Excel at Science
Amid growing recognition that a successful scientific career requires skills beyond scientific acumen, institutions are racing to provide management training for newly minted principal investigators.
Cell, March 2009
Experts Question Placebo Pill for Children
Should deception play a role in helping a child feel better?
The New York Times, May 27, 2008
Is It or Isn’t It (Just Another Mouse)?
Why science alone will not settle the West’s endangered species dilemmas
High Country News, August 7, 2006
2007 recipient of an honorable mention for print journalism from the
American Institute of Biological Sciences.
The controversy over the endangered Preble’s meadow jumping mouse is not about science, it’s about values and that’s a dispute that science can’t resolve.
Christie Aschwanden 