Surprises at new frontier trump a tool’s potential power

December 17, 2015 at 7:30 am - More than 2 years ago

Lists invite disagreements, as I’ve said before (see last year’s Top 25 science stories, for example). And Science News molecular biology writer Tina Hesman Saey was not alone in arguing that the new gene-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9 should snag the top spot this year over Pluto.