Optimal Tweezers

Biophysical researcher and science writer; takes photos; makes kites.

Posts Tagged ‘mysteries’

Paul Nurse’s at-home gene research

Monday, August 10th, 2009

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. (more…)