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Did the gene-drug revolution just arrive?

Posted on March 28, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Did the genomic revolution arrive last week, or was that just the snowstorm? The answer depends on whom you listened to and what they thought of a study publish...

Biology/Culture of Science/Genetics/History of science/Readings

Two Sharp Takes on Mukherjee’s The Gene

Posted on May 19, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Nathaniel Comfort, “Genes Are Overrated”: Mukherjee gives us a Whig history of the gene, told with verve and color, if not scrupulous accuracy. The ...

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James Watson as genetic error

Posted on December 1, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Adam Rutherford addresses James Watson’s attempt to dodge his past: Like all contemporary biologists, my career is largely based on his work. The medal? I...

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Christine Kenneally’s Rich, Rompy Read on Genes

Posted on October 17, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Of Christine Kenneally’s father’s father — a man neither Kenneally nor her father ever knew, a man who did the deed requisite to reproduction and promptly vanis...

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Tall tales about tall genes, revised edition.

Posted on October 8, 2014 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

How do genes generate traits? A prime answer emerging from the ever-increasing power of genetic studies is that genes create traits through accidental teamwork....

Biology/Brains and Behavior/Psychiatry/Readings

Schizophrenia is a thing we all carry a bit of.

Posted on October 4, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Michael O’Donovan and Kenneth Kendler, eminences in psychiatric genetics for good reason, look at the implications of recent (early) progress in identifyi...

Culture of Science/Genetics/Published elsewhere

Geneticists blast Nicholas Wade for misrepresenting their papers

Posted on August 8, 2014 by David Dobbs / 4 Comments

Today a group of over 130 prominent geneticists, responding to a review I wrote for The New York Times Sunday Book Review of Nicholas Wade’s book A Troubl...

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The Limits of Lawyers, Murderers, Maggots, and Brain Scans

Posted on July 25, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Anne Fausto-Sterling is killing it lately on the brain and gene beat. She does so again here with On Maggots and Brain Scans What do brain images really tell us...

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Huge Study Throws Tiny Bit More Light on Schizophrenia

Posted on July 23, 2014 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

An unprecedently large genetic study of schizophrenia has linked a bunch of new genes to this confusing ailment. This’ll take years, decades maybe, to sort out,...

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Talking Genetics and Writing with David Goodman

Posted on July 18, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

My journalist friend and colleague David Goodman had me on his radio show “The Vermont Conversation” this past Wednesday, over at WDEV’s fine ...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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