My family is the real-life version of the Griswolds from National Lampoon’s. More space cadet than rocket scientist. The kind of people who are really good at getting in their own way. You’ve seen us before. At the rest stop wondering how we drove 40 miles in the wrong direction. At the movies bragging about [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘genes’
July 27, 2009
the perils of color-coded DNA
I just wrote a piece for the Root.com (a site headed up by the very newsworthy Harvard professor Skip Gates) about race and cancer outcomes. It was a response, actually, to a story that appeared on Slate.com. Conservative columnist William Saletan, after analyzing a National Cancer Institute study that reveals African Americans with gender-based cancers [...]
