CARTER’S CANCER: The former president’s doctors found melanoma that had spread to his brain in August 2015. They declared him in remission last month.© ISTOCK.COM/EDSTOCK
—Former US President Jimmy Carter, announcing to his Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, that he would stop receiving treatment after three months of immunotherapy aimed at the melanoma that had spread to his brain (March 7)
—Judith Kimble, University of Wisconsin–Madison geneticist, speaking at the 2016 BioPolicy Summit on research reproducibility held earlier this year in Washington, DC (February 9)
—Stuart Firestein, former chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, in a Los Angeles Times op-ed about science’s reproducibility crisis (February 14)
—Frederic Michon, University of Helsinki developmental biologist, quoted in a New Yorker feature on the discredited stem cell reprogramming protocol (“The Stress Test”) by Dana Goodyear (February 29)
—Harvard University clinical researcher and New Yorker ...
