Paul Nurse’s at-home gene research
I was intrigued to hear recently that Paul Nurse was a speaker at The Moth, a very cool storytelling collective in NYC. Paul Nurse is a Nobel Prize-winning biologist, who achieved fame for identifying the molecular stopwatches that regulate the timing of cells’ division and growth; I figured that his story would somehow relate to his life in the lab, or some saucy story of academic intrigue, but it turned out that the story–while still quite saucy–was much more personal for him.
I don’t want to give away too many details (it’s really best to let him tell you the story, on the July 27 episode of the podcast) but it involves some surprises in his own genetics. So go check it out!
Tags: genetics, mysteries, Paul Nurse, Podcasts