Cobb, Matthew, and Nathaniel Comfort. “What Rosalind Franklin Truly Contributed to the Discovery of DNA’s Structure.” Nature 616, no. 7958 (April 2023): 657–60. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01313-5.

Comfort, Nathaniel. “Review of Gregory Radick, Disputed Inheritance: The Battle Over Mendel and the Future of Biology.” The FASEB Journal 37, no. 4 (2023): e22830. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202300212.

Comfort, Nathaniel. “Heels: A New Account of the Double Helix.” Los Angeles Review of Books, October 26, 2021. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/heels-a-new-account-of-the-double-helix/.

Comfort, Nathaniel. “Border Crossing.” The Point Magazine: Quarantine Journal (blog), April 5, 2020. https://thepointmag.com/quarantine-journal/#border-crossing.

———. “How Science Has Shifted Our Sense of Identity.” Nature 574, no. 7777 (October 2019): 167–70. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03014-4.

———. “Nature Still Battles Nurture in the Haunting World of Social Genomics.” Nature 553 (January 15, 2018): 278–80. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-00578-5.

———. “Review of Gregory Radick, Disputed Inheritance: The Battle Over Mendel and the Future of Biology.” The FASEB Journal 37, no. 4 (2023): e22830. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202300212.

———. “The Weird Ever-Evolving Story of DNA [Review of Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh].” The Atlantic, June 22, 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/carl-zimmer-she-has-her-mother-s-laugh/561710/.

———. “Why the Hype around Medical Genetics Is a Public Enemy.” Aeon, 2019. https://aeon.co/ideas/why-the-hype-around-medical-genetics-is-a-public-enemy.

Meyer, Michelle N., Paul S. Appelbaum, Daniel J. Benjamin, Shawneequa L. Callier, Nathaniel Comfort, Dalton Conley, Jeremy Freese, et al. “Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics: Risks, Potential Benefits, and Ethical Responsibility.” Hastings Center Report 53, no. S1 (March 2023): S2–49. https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.1477.

Mariscal, Carlos, Ana Barahona, Nathanael Aubert-Kato, Arsev Umur Aydinoglu, Stuart Bartlett, María Luz Cárdenas, Kuhan Chandru, et al. “Hidden Concepts in the History and Philosophy of Origins-of-Life Studies: A Workshop Report.” Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, August 9, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11084-019-09580-x.

Wu, JunBo, and Nathaniel C. Comfort. “Precision Medicine for the Population—The Hope and Hype of Public Health Genomics.” CHANCE 36, no. 3 (July 3, 2023): 25–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/09332480.2023.2264730.
“Genetic Determinism Rides Again.” Nature 561 (September 25, 2018): 461. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06784-5.

“Sociogenomics Is Opening a New Door to Eugenics.” MIT Technology Review. Accessed July 16, 2019. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612275/sociogenomics-is-opening-a-new-door-to-eugenics/.

“Genome Editing: That’s the Way the Crispr Crumbles.” Nature 546, no. 7656 (06/01/print 2017): 30-31.

“A Whig History of CRISPR.” Genotopia (Jan. 18 2016).

“The Overhyping of Precision Medicine.” The Atlantic, Dec. 12 2016.

“Genes Are Overrated.” The Atlantic June (2016): 42-44.

“The Fly in the Primordial Soup.” Nautilus (June 23 2016 and July 13, 2017): 12 pp.

“Better Babies: The Long and Peculiar History of the Designer Human, from Plato’s Citizen Breeders to Nobel Sperm Banks and Beyond,” Aeon, Nov. 17, 2015.

“Genetics: Dawkins Redux,” Nature 525: 184-185, Sept. 10, 2015. [pdf]

“Can We Cure Genetic Diseases Without Slipping into Eugenics?”, The Nation, Aug 3-10, 2015.

“The Genetic Self,” The Point 9 (Winter 2015): 148–157. Part of symposium on privacy.

“We Are the 98%,” Nature 525: 615-616 (April 30 2015). (Review of 3 books on the genome). [pdf]

“Under the Skin.” Nature 513 (18 September 2014): 306–07. Featured in Nature/Scientific American special issue on race and listed in the Top 10 of 2014 for Nature Books & Arts.

“Recombinant Gold.” Review of Nicolas Rasmussen, Gene Jockeys. Nature 508 (2014): 176-77.

“The Genetic Watchmaker.” Review of J. Craig Venter, Life at the Speed of Light. Nature 502 (2013): 436-37.

“The Eugenic Impulse.” Chronicle Review  (Nov. 12 2012).

“Could Genetics Help Us Understand Mass Killers?” Hartford Courant, Jan. 11, 2013.

“‘Novel Features of Considerable Interest’.” [Review of Watson, Witkowski, and Gann, The Annotated, Illustrated Double Helix], Science 339, no. 6120 (2013): 648-48.

“Review of James Schwartz, in Pursuit of the Gene.” Isis 102, no. 1 (2011): 192-93.

“When Your Sources Talk Back: Toward a Multimodal Approach to Scientific Biography.” Journal of the History of Biology 44 (2011): 651-59.

“Review of J. A. Witkowski and John Inglis, Eds., Davenport’s Dream: 21st Century Reflections on Heredity and Eugenics.” Isis 100, no. 1 (2009): 191-92.

“The Prisoner as Model Organism: Malaria Research at Stateville Penitentiary.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 40 (2009): 190-203.

“Rebellion and Iconoclasm in the Life and Science of Barbara McClintock.” In Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology, 137-53. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2008.

“Cultural Darwinism.” The European Legacy 13, no. 5 (2008): 623-37.

“‘Polyhybrid Heterogeneous Bastards’: Promoting Medical Genetics in America in the 1930s and 1940s.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 61, no. 4 (2006): 415-55.

“Zelig: Francis Galton’s Reputation in Biography.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 80, no. 2 (2006): 348-63.

“Reptile: Galapagos Tortoise.” The Believer 2, no. 3 (2004): 42-43.

The Decathlon of Biotourism, ISHPSSB Newsletter, Fall, 2003. https://www.academia.edu/617600/The_decathlon_of_biotourism

“The Stuff of Life [Review of Nicholas Wade, Life Script].” New York Times Book Review, no. 9 Sept. 2001 (2001).

“Proving Watson-Crickery, Napkin by Napkin [Review of Fl Holmes, ‘Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA: A History of ‘the Most Beautiful Experiment in the World’].” Science 294 (2001): 2483-4.

“‘The Real Point Is Control’: The Reception of Barbara Mcclintock’s Controlling Elements.” Journal of the History of Biology 32 (1999): 133-62.

Book chapters

“A Twisted Answer to Life and the Universe.” In Hidden Treasure: 175 Years of the National Library of Medicine. New York: Blast Books, 2012.

“Rebellion and Iconoclasm in the Life and Science of Barbara Mcclintock.” In Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology, 137-53. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2008.

“Introduction: The Panda’s Black Box.” In The Panda’s Black Box: Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy, 1-17. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

“Barbara McClintock’s Controlling Elements: Premature Discovery or Stillborn Theory?”. In Prematurity in Scientific Discovery, 175-99. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002.