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- Write 4 NY Times, NatGeo, Atlantic, Slate, Nature. Blog @WIRED. Author 'My Mother's Lover,' 'Reef Madness,' & 'Orchids & Dandelions, forthcoming.
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- Montpelier, VT
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- http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/neuronculture
David Dobbs's Selections From the Web
In Forbes’ “Love Only One” feature, which is returning after a long hiatus, we ask the biggest luminaries in different fields for their top picks in everything from stocks to gadgets. Here, we ask Nobel laureate James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and one of the first people to have his genome sequenced, to pick his favorite gene. From the May 21, 2012, issue of Forbes Magazine.
“One gene fascinates me: POMC, on chromosome 2, which is a recipe for a protein called Âpro-opiomelanocortin. In the body it gets broken up into different proteins, including melanotropin, which makes the skin darker when youâ
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