Genetics Research Discovered in a Bestseller
By Nancy Parrish, Staff Writer
One morning in early January, Amar Klar sat down at his computer and found an e-mail with a curious message from a colleague.
While reading a bestselling novel, The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides, his colleague, a professor at Princeton University, found a description of research on yeast genetics that was surprisingly similar to Klar’s early research. Even the laboratory in the novel was reminiscent of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where Klar had conducted his research.