{"id":86959,"date":"2019-01-23T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T21:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/its-the-end-of-the-gene-as-we-know-it"},"modified":"2019-01-23T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T21:22:27","slug":"its-the-end-of-the-gene-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/its-the-end-of-the-gene-as-we-know-it","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the End of the Gene As We Know It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-the-end-of-the-gene-as-we-know-it3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all seen the stark headlines: \u201cBeing Rich and Successful Is in Your DNA\u201d (<i>Guardian<\/i>, July 12); \u201cA New Genetic Test Could Help Determine Children\u2019s Success\u201d (<i>Newsweek<\/i>, July 10); \u201c<i>Our Fortunetelling Genes<\/i>\u201d make us (<i>Wall Street Journal<\/i>, Nov. 16); and so on.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, many of these headlines are not discussing real genes at all, but a crude statistical model of them, involving dozens of unlikely assumptions. Now, slowly but surely, that whole conceptual model of the gene is being challenged.<\/p>\n<p>We have reached peak gene, and passed it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/68\/context\/its-the-end-of-the-gene-as-we-know-it\">http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/68\/context\/its-the-end-of-the-gene-as-we-know-it<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all seen the stark headlines: \u201cBeing Rich and Successful Is in Your DNA\u201d (Guardian, July 12); \u201cA New Genetic Test Could Help Determine Children\u2019s Success\u201d (Newsweek, July 10); \u201cOur Fortunetelling Genes\u201d make us (Wall Street Journal, Nov. 16); and so on. The problem is, many of these headlines are not discussing real genes at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}