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Gene-editing summit touts sickle cell success, while questions on embryo editing linger
After decades of living with often excruciating pain, Victoria Gray had to get used to a new sensation in recent years: waking up without it. “It may sound crazy, but I had to pinch myself to see was I still able to feel pain,” she says.
Gray, a 37-year-old mother of four from Forest, Mississippi, who was born with sickle cell disease, arguably became the star of last...
Lord of the Rings–quoting performance wins this year’s ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest
Twirling and flying hand fans, catchy
Lord of the Rings
references, and 20 blue papier-mâché balloons. University of Oregon chemist Checkers Marshall put together that strange combination to create this year’s overall winning video in
Science
’s long-running
Dance Your Ph.D. contest
. The use of fans, which represented electrons, was...