She previously reported the latest news for the research journals Nature Medicine and Nature Methods. She also worked as a science writer at Children's Hospital Boston. A huge NPR fan, in 2010, she produced two science stories for WBUR's World of Ideas. She holds a B.A. in Chemistry from Haverford College, a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Science and Medical Journalism from Boston University.