New Scientist picks Nessa Carey
8 Jan 2015

The New Scientist has chosen Nessa Carey’s Junk DNA as one of its books to look forward to in 2015.

‘The term “junk DNA” is fast becoming a misnomer as researchers highlight the strange and unexpected roles it can play in everything from hard-to-treat diseases to gene expression. Some are even asking if this genomic “nonsense” could be the source of human biological complexity. Nessa Carey will deserve plaudits if she does as good a job in helping to explain the controversies in this field as she did about the equally hot topic of epigenetics.’