STAT February 3, 2025
Top life scientists bemoan the lack of vocal opposition from the research community
Eight weeks ago, surrounded by flowers, fanfaring trumpets, and the applause of a packed Stockholm Concert Hall, Victor Ambros accepted his Nobel Prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. For Ambros, a worm geneticist who grew up on a dairy farm in Vermont and is now a professor at the UMass Chan Medical School, it was like nothing he’d ever experienced...