Yasmin Tayag

I’m a staff writer at the Atlantic, where I cover science, health, and the future of food. My writing has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Guardian, Vox, Slate, Bon Appétit, and other outlets.

Previously, I was the lead editor of the Medium Coronavirus Blog and founding editor of Future Human. I was also a senior editor at the health site Elemental and the tech site OneZero. Before that, I was the senior science editor at Inverse.

I grew up in Toronto, received a degree in human biology and English literature at the University of Toronto, then graduated from New York University with a Masters in biology after a stint in a developmental genetics lab, where I studied heart development in sea squirts.

I have been a guest on Science Friday, the Brian Lehrer Show, CES, SXSW, Newsy, and Cheddar and was featured on the feminist podcast Nevertheless She Existed. I used to work at Nature Chemical Biology and the World Science Festival. In what now seems like a different life, I was also in a bunch of Scientific American videos.