Bruce Lahn's Seed

Seed has published an interview with Bruce Lahn. It's not all that interested, and, frankly, the boys at Gene Expression could have done much better. Given their obsession with Lahn, I wouldn't be surprised to see him show up in the 10 questions series.

The title of this post is both a play on the name of the magazine and a reference to Lahn's status as one of Chicago's 10 most eligible bachelors.

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There has been talk about rock star scientists and what not on Science Blogs. Rock stars? Isn't that so baby boomer?
The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating article on Bruce Lahn today. Last September, Lahn announced in Science that he had isolated two brain genes in humans which had undergone recent evolution, but only in certain populations.
SEED hits the major points, and Paabo confirms:
Last September, Bruce Lahn and colleagues published a couple of papers on the evolution of two genes responsible for brain development in humans (ASPM and Microcephalin

Given their obsession with Lahn, I wouldn't be surprised to see him show up in the 10 questions series.

*sly smile*