Still No Explanation for Scientists Who Are Addicted to Their Research

Jan 08, 2008

Bioinformaticists at Peking University in Beijing published a paper in PLoS Computational Biology that linked 396 common genes to drug addiction, reports a news story. The pathways they focused on were those for addiction to cocaine, opiates, alcohol, and nicotine.

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