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Nathaniel Comfort is associate professor, Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, and a participant in The Oral History of Human Genetics project. He is the author of the new book The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine, just published by Yale University Press. His blog ishttp://genotopia.scienceblog.com/

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'Single Gene May Hold Key to Life Itself'

(22) Comments | Posted September 23, 2012 | 3:45 PM

"Your IQ depends on a single gene"; "Long life is all in the genes"; "A gene that could explain why the red mist descends"; "Sleeping is all in the genes"; "Scientists ID morning person gene"; "The Twitter gene."

Those are real, published headlines. Up until the last one, I'd forgive...

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