Ten Minute Sabbatical

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In this instance, hopefully, we collectively learn from this. . . . It’s also a chance to maybe move the needle in a meaningful way to change the way that all of us are conducting our work.

—Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley, biochemist and a recipient of the 2020 Chemistry Nobel Prize for codeveloping CRISPR as a genome editing tool, talking on STAT’s “The Readout LOUD” podcast about Eric Lander’s resignation (February 17)

I have sought to push myself and my colleagues to reach our shared goals—including at times challenging and criticizing. But it is clear that things I said, and the way I said them, crossed the line at times into being disrespectful and demeaning, to both men and women.

—Eric Lander, former head of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in his letter to President Joe Biden resigning from his post as director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy after an investigation found evidence that he had bullied agency staffers (The New York Times, February 7)

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