{"id":532153,"date":"2010-04-17T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2010\/apr\/05-questions-she-tracks-our-dna-footprints"},"modified":"2010-04-17T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T15:45:00","slug":"5-questions-for-the-woman-who-tracks-our-dna-footprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/532153","title":{"rendered":"5 Questions for the Woman Who Tracks Our DNA Footprints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of revolution in 1978, Pardis Sabeti\u2019s (video interviews here) family fled Iran for the United States. Sabeti has embraced change ever since. A crucial pivot came when, en route to medical school, she instead took a Rhodes Scholarship, studying evolutionary genetics (and learning to relax by playing guitar). \u201cI thought I was just passing time on the way to my real life,\u201d she says. But today she blends her interests in health and evolution, tracking mutations in pathogens and their human hosts.<\/p>\n<p><b>Your career started with a stumble, didn\u2019t it?<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>I flunked my qualifying exam in the early phase of my Ph.D. The professors said I had no business in science. But I embrace failure. It sharpens your focus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/RLL2xBOwcHU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of revolution in 1978, Pardis Sabeti\u2019s (video interviews here) family fled Iran for the United States. Sabeti has embraced change ever since. A crucial pivot came when, en route to medical school, she instead took a Rhodes Scholarship, studying evolutionary genetics (and learning to relax by playing guitar). \u201cI thought I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}