A few weeks ago a college friend of mine (and geneticist) alerted me to a PLoS Biology commentary by bacterial geneticist Rosemary Redfield (of arsenic life fame) entitled “Why do we have to learn this stuff?” – A new genetics for 21st Century Students. I’m not a geneticist, but to my eyes this piece is both refreshing and thought-provoking and definitely worth a read for any science professor or aspiring professor.
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Summer E. Allen, PhD 
