Sandi Doughton writes about science for The Seattle Times.

Doughton's first science writing job was for the Los Alamos Monitor, a small daily where she covered Los Alamos National Laboratory and its programs in nuclear weapons, Star Wars anti-ballistic missile systems, laser fusion and basic physics. Doughton has also worked at newspapers in Santa Fe and Tacoma, WA., where she covered the environment, health and medicine.

Doughton went into journalism after deciding against her first career choice: biologist. The realization that she wasn't cracked up for laboratory work came when she was working on a master's degree project in Texas, which required standing for hours in a walk-in freezer, dripping rattlesnake venom into gel columns.

Doughton has been a journalist for about 20 years. She received her undergraduate degree, majors in biology and journalism, minor in chemistry, from the University of New Mexico and did graduate studies in biology and chemistry at Texas A&M University.