The Scientist - USA (2021-12)

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9 CONTRIBUTORS

11 FROM THE EDITOR

Innovations that Matter

Scientific advances often have the potential to benefit human lives.

In times like these, they also have the power to save them.

BY BOB GRANT

16 CRITIC AT LARGE

Data-Driven Hiring

Going beyond personal impressions is essential to hiring researchers who engage

in meaningful and innovative work.

BY GEORGES BELFORT

18 NOTEBOOKS

Expectorating worms reveal the unique way the animals’ neurons control their

muscles; girl’s rare genetic disorder treated with repurposed drug within just 16

months of her seeing a genetic specialist

42 THE LITERATURE

How stress is “remembered” by the mitochondria of worms more than 50

generations later; different medusafish species share thick, slimy skin and

a throat filled with teeth; an Alzheimer’s-associated protein calibrates an

essential signaling pathway

45 SCIENTIST TO WATCH

Brooke Gardner: Probing Peroxisomes

BY CHLOE TENN

46 BIOBIZ

The RNA Run

RNA editing has been in DNA editing’s

shadow for nearly a decade, but recent

investments in the tech could bring it

into the limelight.

BY CHRISTIE WILCOX

55 READING FRAMES

Bridging the Intellectual Divide

Why society needs to break down

the barriers between scientific

and humanistic thinking

BY MARCELO GLEISER

56 FOUNDATIONS

Presidential Pox, 1863

BY ANNIE MELCHOR

DECEMBER 2021

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CORRECTIONS:

In the October 2021 issue, the article “Bianca Jones Marlin: Studying

Genetic Memories” stated that Marlin had opened her lab at

Columbia University in January 2020, instead of in January 2021.

The article “Moments in Time” implied that time coding in mice

was discovered in 2020, but scientists have been studying the

phenomenon since at least 2007. The piece also suggested that the

high degree of recall accuracy was caused by the time cells, but the

study did not explicitly test such a link, although other studies have.

The Scientist regrets these errors.