Day 80: Pesticides give you … obesity?

On the surface, obesity looks to be a self-inflicted wound. Too much food and not enough exercise, right? Not so simple. A new study in PLoS ONE adds heft to a link between pesticides and obesity that’s been emerging for the past several years. Soo Lim, of the Department of Internal Medicine at Seoul National University College [...]

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Day 3(b): The social butterfly gene

On my way to becoming a science writer, I earned a master’s degree in biology. My thesis was a genetics project, and I conducted my experiments among a group of dedicated future geneticists led by an already accomplished — indeed, famous — one. Each week, we would gather for lab meetings, where we gave reports [...]

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