Patience Asanga is a Nigeria-based science writer. She has a BSc in animal and environmental biology from the University of Benin, Nigeria. Patience enjoys writing about various topics across the life sciences, especially cell biology and immunology, and she also covers the biopharmaceutical industry. Her work has appeared in Knowable Magazine, The Scientist, Scidev and BioSpace. When she's not writing, she's probably reading science articles, watching dog videos or dreaming about becoming a scientist.