How Your Friends Get Into Your Genes And Save Your Life – “The Sociable Genome”

Posted on September 3, 2013 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

I’ve a new feature, “The Social Life of Genes,” in Pacific Standard. It involves bees, birds, monkeys, and how our social life and our genes constantly converse, reshaping us (and our social life) as they go. One of the main characters is a young UCLA psychoneuroimmunologist named Steve Cole, who in the 1990s, reviewing the health […]

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The Social Life of Genes

Posted on August 26, 2013 by David Dobbs · 5 Comments

Today I was on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show talking about “The Social Life of Genes,” a feature I wrote that will appear appeared in Pacific Standard’s Sept/Oct issue. Day by day, week by week, your genes are in a conversation with your social world. Your neighbors, your friends, your family: They don’t just get under your […]

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