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QUOTES

Speaking of Science

ACROSS

1. Country home to Miombo woodlands


2. Item on a chemist’s table


3. Family relative of lilac and jasmine


4. Vessel connecting ventricle and abdomen


5. Upper fixed bone of the jaw


6. Apple or potato variety


7. Max of constant fame


8. Nicotiana member


9. Olfactory channels


10. Strongest bone in the human body


11. Most abundant monosaccharide


12. Secretion that nourishes queen bees
    (2 wds.)

DOWN

2. Perform in a surgical theater


3. Time for a foliage tour


4. Zoological park site since 1899


5. Hollow shaft of a feather


6. Where corneas may be found (2 wds.)


7. Some intravenous injections


8. Features of wheat or barbets


9. “Wheel animalcule”


10. Pertaining to the 17-Down


11. Descriptor of the small intestine


12. Site of gustatory cells


13. Like skin with keratosis pilaris


14. Calcareous deposit


15. Undergo molting

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I think there needs to be a balance

between fundamental curiosity-

driven science and applied science,

because we need each other. The

fundamental science often goes in

unexpected directions and leads to

advances that wouldn’t have been

made otherwise, and CRISPR is

certainly in that category.

—University of California, Berkeley, researcher

Jennifer Doudna, Nobel Prize–winning

codeveloper of CRISPR gene editing, speaking

with the Association of American Medical

Colleges about the most pressing issues facing the

academic medical community (November 8)

We found that when researchers

report that males and females

respond differently to a manipulation

such as a drug treatment, 70 percent

of the time the researchers have not

actually compared those responses

statistically at all. In other words,

an alarming percentage of claims

of sex differences are not backed

by sufficient evidence.

—Emory University neuroscientist Donna Maney, in

a press release reporting the publication of a recent

eLife paper she coauthored analyzing data from

dozens of 2019 studies (November 9)

Note: The answer grid will include every letter of the alphabet.

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