DNA is Not a Blueprint

Scientific American, February 2020

Remember that when you buy one of those genome testing kits—and eventually, you will

Sergio Pistoi

When I was a young student in Paris, the City of Love, girls at parties would what I did for a living. I still recall their unsettled looks when I answered “molecular biologist,” which would send them running to powder their noses. They never came back. Back in the early 2000s, the only people who could get stuck in a dreary conversation about DNA, Mendel...