Doudna and Arnold Chat âNobel to Nobelâ
Jennifer Doudna and Frances Arnold
Doudna and Arnold Chat âNobel to Nobelâ
Jennifer Doudna and Frances Arnold discuss CRISPR, winning the Nobel Prize, and being women in science at Illuminaâs Spark conference.
Fireside chats have become a staple of pandemic-era virtual events. The reasons are clear: they offer a glimpse into an otherwise private conversation and it’s entertaining to listen to two scientists âtalk shop.” When the scientists are two of the top scientists in the world, who also happen to be women, it is a rare, and valuable, moment. Indeed, when Jennifer Doudna, PhD, and Frances Arnold, PhD, chatted recently during the Spark 2021 conference, hosted by Illumina, one viewer noted that they had âgoosebumps.â
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For the record:
4:44 PM, May. 04, 2021An earlier version of this newsletter said the coronavirus infection rate among people who had been vaccinated against COVID-19 was 0.0001%. It is 0.01%.
Every day, millions of Americans are rolling up their sleeves for a dose of COVID-19 vaccine. The Band-Aid across your upper arm can feel like a little coat of tan-colored armor, but it’s important to know that the antibodies building underneath aren’t perfect.
As of April 26, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 9,245 coronavirus infections among the 95 million Americans who have been fully vaccinated, and 132 of those people died. The CDC recognizes that these figures are probably an undercount of “breakthrough” cases, but even so, that’s
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(a) Wellcome Trust Publishers Pledge
The first pandemic-related IP pledge addressed copyrights. On January 31, 2020, the Wellcome Trust, a large UK-based medical charity, led a group of approximately thirty scientific and medical publishers in committing to make all peer-reviewed research publications relating to COVID-19 available without charge on an open access basis. The signatories included Elsevier, Cell Press, Karger, the JAMA Network, the New England Journal of Medicine, Oxford University Press, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer. The initiative echoed earlier Wellcome-led pledges of similar scope made with respect to research concerning the Zika and Ebola outbreaks.
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