Mastodon Feed
Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
mikeolson ("Mike Olson") wrote:
I first learned about molecular biology in earnest during the 1990s and heyday of the Human Genome Project. The idea then was that we'd find the gene for cancer, the gene for aging, disrupt some metabolic pathways, knock down any biology we didn't like.
I recently finished reading "How Life Works" by Philip Ball. It's a thirty-years-later what-have-we-learned update on the field. The answer: it's way more complicated, and way more interesting, than we first thought.
1/