OH, CANADA: Justin Trudeau (bottom row, center), Canada’s newly elected prime minister, has appointed the country’s first ever gender-equal cabinet, which includes Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan (top row, white jacket) and Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Navdeep Bains (middle row, far left).PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA/FLICKR
—Newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, responding to a reporter’s question about why he chose to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet, which included the country’s first-ever Minister of Science, a medical geographer named Kirsty Duncan, and Navdeep Bains, a businessman now serving as Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (November 4)
—Katrine Bosley, Editas Medicine CEO, describing why the company hopes to begin clinical trials of a CRISPR-based gene therapy in 2017, just four years after the first papers using the technique in human cells were published (November 5)
—University of California, Berkeley, molecular biologist Jennifer Doudna, who helped develop CRISPR technology, on the need to exercise caution in the editing of human genes (November 16)
—Brandeis University neuroscientist Eve Marder, in an eLife ...
