Topic: David Botstein

Strength in numbers

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 ...