The nominating procedure it pretty long and complex. He was almost assuredly nominated before dying.

Right. That’s why you should always keep an up to date lab notebook!

Franklin wasn’t denied the Nobel, because she was already deceased when it was awarded. She may have been denied much of the credit, but certainly not the Nobel.

It’s more like, “pay us extra money and we’ll look over your patent application faster.”

There was a huge twitter discussion about this over the past week. There was also apparently an article slanted toward Doudna where the author didn’t disclose that she was at the (I believe) same university.

Whoever ends up with the patents the Nobel will obviously be shared. The Nobel committee won’t care who came up with it first! just that they discovered it at about the same time independently.

That radiolab story way overhyped how well crispr currently works.

Being published w/i a month of each other doesn’t necessarily mean much. Journals will often hold back publishing accepted papers so that several related ones can be published at the same time. It’s really about who discovered first, not published.

it’s basically like a patent on a type of oil well plug that every oil driller uses or something!

No. As far as I know the Nobel committee has never allowed for posthumous nominations for prizes. They have awarded the prize to a person who was deceased when they died after nominations already occurred, but before final decision. You can see this in the years 1931 and 1961

because it would have been unnecessarily rough.

Is it even possible for a bear to rape a man?

His team is competitive because he FINALLY stopped meddling so much.

Can we stop with this joke already?

Like paying off immediate family member’s debts is one thing, but giving money to your second cousin on your dad’s side by marriage?

How hard is it to deflect money grabbers? Just say “No!”

Yeah, I’m sure he thought if he stripped the ball from someone that he was laying on top of on the ground the refs would believe it was a live ball and give him a touchdown.

He’s trying to get the ball like defenders do on half of running plays. Then they pop up like they recovered a fumble even though it’s obvious the offensive player was down.

Ben Roethlisberger left yesterday’s win crazy over the Bengals with a shoulder injury after Vontaze Burfict got him with a cheap shot.

Have you ever watched the Bengals play? AJ Green turns into a ghost who doesn’t finish his routes in big games.