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—Nobel laureate Paul Nurse, director of the Francis Crick Institute and immediate past president of the Royal Society, speaking four months before UK citizens voted to leave the European Union in the historic “Brexit” referendum (BBC News, February 26)

Paul Nurse, on how the June 23 "Brexit" vote to leave the European Union could impact scientific research in the U.K. (BBC News, June 29)

—Nobel laureate Phillip Sharp, on the need to merge historically disparate disciplines, such as physics, computer science, mathematics, and the life sciences in order to achieve long-standing goals in biomedicine (MIT News, June 23)

—President Barack Obama, in a Boston Globe opinion piece about his administration’s efforts to make personalized medicine a broader reality (July 7)

—Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, in ...

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