A picture of Dan holding his friend’s cat Homer.

Yes, hello. My name is Dan Samorodnitsky. I’m a freelance writer, editor, and fact checker who specializes in science, particularly biology. I’ve written about synthetic biology, genetics, evolution, and medicine, as well as other things like Dairy Queen, church fish fries, and local politics. I was the senior editor at Massive Science and the senior editor at Drug Discovery News. I live in Minneapolis.