2017 in Quotes

Gender discrimination, Brexit, and climate change are among the issues that have received considerable attention from the scientific community this year.

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—University of California, Berkeley, structural biologist Jennifer Doudna speaking to reporters after the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Trial and Appeal Board ruled in favor of the Broad Institute in an ongoing legal battle over patents for CRISPR genome-editing technology (February 15)

—Vitek Tracz, publisher of Faculty of 1000 and former co-owner of The Scientist, on the passing of Eugene Garfield, the scientometrics pioneer who launched The Scientist in 1986 (February 27)

—US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, on the CNBC program Squawk Box shortly after his confirmation (March 9)

—Molecular biologist Beverly Emerson of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in a lawsuit brought against Salk for gender discrimination, following similar suits from two other female full professors (July 18)

—A memo, penned ...

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Catherine Offord
After undergraduate research with spiders at the University of Oxford and graduate research with ants at Princeton University, Catherine left arthropods and academia to become a science journalist. She has worked in various guises at The Scientist since 2016. As Senior Editor, she wrote articles for the online and print publications, and edited the magazine’s Notebook, Careers, and Bio Business sections. She reports on subjects ranging from cellular and molecular biology to research misconduct and science policy. Find more of her work at her website.
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