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Researcher under fire for New Yorker epigenetics article

Scientists attack Siddhartha Mukherjee’s feature exploring gene regulation.

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Woolston, C. Researcher under fire for New Yorker epigenetics article. Nature 533, 295 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/533295f

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