Charlotte Schubert is a freelance science journalist based in Seattle with previous staff experience at Nature Medicine and at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She has written for Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cell Press and other publications. She has Ph.D. from the University of Washington and just completed a year-long stint in an epigenetics lab at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
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