Here is another one for a Nobel Prize everyone knew was coming. The most interesting thing to me is that the award was given to only Doudna and Charpentier - the first all-female awardees, if I’m not mistaken. As I’m certain @stlyankeefan and @Michelle could verify, having this all-female team winning a Nobel Prize is a pretty big deal for the culture of scientific research in addition to the tremendous advances their research introduced.
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The other two names I often hear connected to this are Feng Zhang at MIT and George Church at Harvard. It’s been my observation that when there are potentially more than 3 people involved the Nobel committee sometimes just restricts it to the one or two of the most prominent.
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I’m sure it must be disappointing, but Church is apparently handling it well.
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He will get his Nobel for resurrecting a Mammoth 
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What’s the mood at the Broad Institute @glipsnort?
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Congrats to Doudna and Charpentier, the award is well deserved. The court battles over patent rights are a bit unfortunate, but they certainly don’t tarnish what those two amazing scientists have accomplished.
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I can’t really say, since I work from home and only interact with a small number of people by zoom, none of whom are particularly concerned with the matter. There was certainly some glee being expressed at Eric’s expense in the scientific Twitter world – he did not make himself many friends with that Cell piece.
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Decrypting that for observers, @glipsnort is referencing Eric Lander, who’s history of CRISPR downplayed the contributions of these two women:
I’d nearly forgotten that episode. I certainly don’t know Lander, but I believe it is possible that his essay just had a “home team” slant, rather than the sexist motives he was accused of.
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I don’t think sexism had anything to do with it. As far as I know, his support for women in science has in general been exemplary.
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