I’m still getting reply-alls from the CBS NCAA Deadspin tourney. This was a week ago.

The US Patent and Trademark Office awarded the first patent for the use of CRISPR to edit specifically eukaryotic (organisms with a nucleus) genomes to Zhang in April of 2014, although an application for a similar patent (it’s unclear, and potentially unimportant, whether the patent application was for the use of…

“Her collaborator” is a strong way to describe Franklin’s relationship with Wilkins. They did not like each other and were even pitted against one another by their manager. And sure, Franklin died before the discovery was nominated for the Nobel but there’s the important fact that Watson and Crick had the structure…

Yeah, they took her data without her permission while she was in the process of getting it published. And they were horrible sexist douches to her.

I partially agree. I think it’s not a gender specific erasure, but rather Lander wanting to bolster more credibility to Zhang and Broad. But I do wonder if they felt like this was something they COULD do because she’s a woman when thinking of the probability of winning the patent dispute (and actively reducing her…

I agree that their gender probably isn’t WHY they’re being written out—but don’t you think it’s still significant in the big picture that systemic power is feeding into a situation where women could potentially not get top billing for technology that they pioneered (and thus not get the monetary rewards or…

But do you think Doudna and Charpentier being women made it easier for Lander to dismiss their contributions?

Oh, she got thoroughly screwed at the time too. It wasn’t just cos she died later.