THE SEEDS OF SCIENCE: Agricultural science has taken a back seat to biomedical research in the U.S.© ISTOCK.COM/NIKOLA NASTASIC
—Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Phillip A. Sharp and Alan Leshner, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in a New York Times opinion piece on the need to invest in agroscience (January 4)
—University of California, Hastings College of the Law professor Robin Feldman and Vern Norviel, a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, writing in the Yale Journal of Law and Technology about changing the definition of what constitutes patentable life-science discoveries (January 8)
—Weizmann Institute of Science researchers Ron Sender, Shai Fuchs, and Ron Milo, writing in a bioaRxiv paper suggesting a revised estimate for the ratio of the number of human to bacterial cells in healthy people (January 6)
—Björn Brembs, a neurogenetics researcher at the University of Regensburg ...
