Most traits that are inherited, including those that predispose individuals to certain diseases, are conferred not by single genes but by combinations of them. That’s both good news and bad news, says Charles Boone, an HHMI international research scholar at the University of Toronto.
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Although he has never taken a biology class, Gene Myers’s work gets a lot of notice from biologists. Fifteen years ago, Myers, whose formal training is in computer science, mathematics, physics, and engineering, co-wrote an article for the Journal of Molecular Biology that would become the most highly cited scientific paper of the decade. read story
Max Delbrück, the physicist-turned-biologist who became a founding father of molecular biology, often told his students that “if you have to use statistics to interpret your experimental results, they can’t be true.” read in full issue (pdf)