“I can say that as a Chinese, there is no one in the world who hopes more sincerely than we ourselves to see China’s emissions peak as early as possible. Because this is in the Chinese national interest, and it is also in the interest of the people of the world.”

Yu Qingtai, China’s special representative for climate change talks, comments on emissions cuts (Financial Times).

“It’s pretty discouraging. It raises serious issues about how widespread this could be.”

Arnold Kriegstein of the University of California, San Francisco, comments on an inquiry opened by the the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis regarding questions over papers published by researchers at its Stem Cell Institute (New Scientist).

“But we can be pretty sure of something: someone in Merck’s legal department has had a very bad day of it within the past couple of weeks…”

Chemist Derek Lowe comments on the fact that a patent filed by Merck was released into the world with legal department comments that should have been kept secret (In the Pipeline blog).