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DNA as Commodity
Here’s a riddle: In the morning I was in the soup. At noon I was in a dish. In the afternoon I was in your gas tank. And at night I am in the bank. What am I? The answer is DNA. From a natural object...
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The Whig interpretation of the gene
I have an essay in the June issue of The Atlantic, out online now and at your favorite magazine dealer or airport in a week or so. It’s an essay review centered around Siddhartha Mukherjee’s newest...
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Golden opportunity
The fabled Karolinska Institutet (KI). To anyone involved with science in the last century or so, that name springs to the mind’s eye plated with the gold of the Nobel Prize. It conjures images of...
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Making DNA “DNA”
On Jan. 2 at 10 pm, PBS American Masters is airing “Decoding Watson,” a film that casts a gimlet eye on James D. Watson and includes commentary from Yours Truly. Here’s a little piece I wrote for their...
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A “new” account of the double helix? Nah.
It’s been a minute since someone has recounted at length, in a book, the story of the solving of the double helix structure of DNA. Matthew Cobb’s Life’s Greatest Secret, which focuses on the genetic...
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