01/02.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 11JONNY HAWKINS
Speaking of Science
QUOTESI certainly hope that over the
coming decade we see an
increasing global effort to put in
place appropriate regulations for
using genome editing, especially in
applications that could have a very
profound impact on everyone.
—Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley,
biologist and seminal figure in the development of
CRISPR genome editing, talking to Fortune about
genomics in the 2020s (December 19)Perhaps an obvious response to
these findings is to encourage
women to act more like men
and be more positive;... this
‘fix the women’ approach lacks
an understanding of the current
evidence base on gender equity.
We must fix the systems that
support gender disparities.
—Reshma Jagsi of the University of Michigan and
Julie Silver of Harvard Medical School, in a commentary
published alongside a BMJ study reporting that male
researchers were far more likely than female researchers
to describe their studies using superlatives such as
“novel” and “unique” (December 16)BY EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHVONDOWN- Lachrymatory agent (2 wds.)
- Part of an organ not in one’s body
- One of the primary veins of a leaf
- The opposite of 16-Down
- Big German breed of domestic dog
(2 wds.) - Item tabled by Mendeleev
- Denser, darker, deader kin of a marsh
- Arthropod that never has exactly 100
legs - Mushroom named for its top (2 wds.)
- Shaped like the inside of a bowl
1 7. Proposition to be proved - God depicted with two opposite faces
- Native New Zealander
- Chewable stimulant of Arabia
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answer grid will include every
letter of the alphabet.
ACROSS- Mammal with a prehensile nose trunk
- Young of pens and cobs
- Eponym of an environmental society
- Watery swelling of plant organs
- Eurasian kinglet with a bright yellow
crown - Psi phenomenon
- Upper parts of horticultural grafts
- Trade name of the antacid ranitidine
- POTUS who gave NASA a mandate
- Genus of parasitoid wasps
- Secretion of epithelial cells in some
molluscs - Redwood conifer of the Northwest US
- Latin adjective humans apply to humans
- Crow, or Fox