Dan Koboldt : Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy

Dan Koboldt is a genetics researcher who has co-authored more than sixty publications in Nature, Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, and other journals. Every fall, he disappears into Missouri’s dense hardwood forests to pursue whitetail deer bow and arrow. He lives with his wife and three children in St. Louis, where the deer take their revenge by eating all of the plants in his backyard.

Dan also writes fantasy and science fiction. His debut novel The Rogue Retrieval, about a Vegas magician who infiltrates a medieval world, will be published by Harper Voyager on January 19th, 2016.

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Dan Koboldt has the following works available at Clarkesworld:

Six Quirks of the Human Genome

NON-FICTION by Dan Koboldt in Issue 113 – February 2016

Since the discovery of the DNA double helix by Watson and Crick in 1953, our knowledge of the genetic code has grown exponentially. Advances in technology have driven much of that discovery, including the rise of next-generation DNA sequencing instruments that I wrote about in issue #108. One of the best parts about working as […]

The Next Generation of DNA Sequencing

NON-FICTION by Dan Koboldt in Issue 108 – September 2015

In 2001, an international team of researchers led by the NIH announced the completion of the Human Genome Project. Sequencing all 3.2 billion base pairs of our genetic code had cost ten million dollars and taken almost a decade. Now, just fourteen years later, we can sequence a human genome in four days, at cost […]

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Six Quirks of the Human Genome

The Next Generation of DNA Sequencing