To find our First Rounders podcast with Rachel Haurwitz, go here. The Caribou website is here, if you do not feel like googling. A nice profile from Stat can be found here, and this is the press release on the founding of Intellia. Here is a guest blog post from Scientific American on the patent fight over CRISPR technology, and below is a link to a PDF on the patent finding.
Street scene from the March for Science event in New York City. Source: Vivien Marx
On April 22, organizers pulled off a worldwide March for Science, with large demonstrations in Washington, DC; New York City; San Francisco and many, many other locations. The stated goal was to fight back against a dialogue of scientific misinformation that has permeated national discourse in recent years, and to advocate for “robustly funded” science. In particular, marchers protested proposed budget cuts by the Trump administration against the National Institutes of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others.
The event in Boston featured Decibel Therapeutics President and CEO Steven Holtzman as a speaker. For those unable to attend or marching in other locations, a transcript of his speech in its entirety is below.
Germany, United Kingdom, Kenya and more round out the April Monthly Map.
