SNIP SNIP: A veritable who’s who of gene-editing researchers gathered in early December for the International Summit on Human Gene Editing to discuss new technologies and their ethical application.© ISTOCK.COM/WILDPIXEL
—Caltech president emeritus and Nobel laureate David Baltimore, speaking at the start of the International Summit on Human Gene Editing, held in Washington, DC, last month (December 1)
—Ismail Serageldin, director of Egypt’s Library of Alexandria, speaking at the International Summit on Human Gene Editing about the need for caution in applying newer, more-precise methods of gene editing (December 1)
—Cook Islands Prime Minister Henry Puna, whose people may soon be forced to leave their homeland due to rising sea levels, speaking to reporters on the eve of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (December 2)
—Rush Holt, executive publisher of Science and head of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, talking to NPR about a Congressional investigation of a ...
