Topic: David Botstein
Leonid Kruglyak did his graduate work in physics, but when he dove into biology, he jumped with both feet. In it, he defended Dean Hamer's 1993 discovery of a genetic basis for homosexuality-and took on Nature's editor. "John Maddox had written this ...
Genetic researchers share $500,000 prize for medicine and biomedical research Three American scientists who contributed to the mapping of the human genetic blueprint an advance that continues to give the medical world a better understanding of human disease were awarded the nation's ...