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Human Genome Project-Write; viruses are alpha predators; Zika and the Olympics

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—New York University geneticist Jef Boeke and 24 others, in a Science Perspective about the launching of a new genomic-scale engineering project (June 3)

Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, speaking about the ethical pitfalls of HGP-write (June 2)

Claus Wilke and Sara Sawyer, virologists at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Colorado Boulder, respectively, in a recent eLife commentary on how viruses drive evolution and adaptation in human and other mammalian genomes (May 17)

—Journalists Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, writing in STAT about a recent Science Translational Medicine paper that bemoans a lack of consensus on defining “reproducibility” (June 1)

—New York University bioethicist Arthur Caplan, warning of the potential dangers to visitors and athletes attending ...

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