Archive for August 2017
PNAS lifts embargo early after news outlet runs typhoid fever story too soon
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) lifted the embargo early Saturday on a paper about typhoid fever, after a news outlet ran a story three days before the embargo was scheduled to lift.
From an email to the PNAS media list: Read the rest of this entry »
Here we go again: Why Nature didn’t just post a paper on stem cell editing after the findings leaked
Last week, Technology Review broke the story of the first gene editing of human embryos in the U.S., using the much-ballyhooed CRISPR technique. That’s a big development, for scientific and ethical reasons, so not surprisingly, other news outlets jumped on it.
The coverage prompted stem cell scientist and blogger Paul Knoepfler to wonder who leaked the paper — which, as many knew but didn’t say because of, well, an embargo, was scheduled to be published today in Nature. (The Tech Review article was published July 26, and Nature didn’t post a pre-embargo version of the paper until a few days ago.)
The coverage also prompted Nature to include this in their embargoed email to reporters on Monday about this week’s issue: Read the rest of this entry »
Embargo Watch 
