Working in a lab is analogous to being in a high-school play: you’re rehearsing long hours, it’s crowded, there are stressful things that come up. How important is personal chemistry in science collaborations? I’m not blaming her: she had her reasons and I respect her I would have loved to continue working with Emmanuelle. Even then I just had this gut feeling that this was something really interesting. ” It was this kind of electrifying moment. I still remember walking down this street with her and she said: “Well I’m really glad you want to work with us on the mysterious. She was so passionate, her excitement was very infectious. We met at a conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and took a walk around the old town together. That’s how I came to be working on Crispr – it was a total side-project.īut when you first started your collaboration with Emmanuelle Charpentier, did you have a hunch you were on to something special? Then there’s the other bucket, where I would put myself, where it’s like you’re at a buffet table and you see an interesting thing here and do it for a while, and that connects you to another interesting thing and you take a bit of that. One is the type who dives very deeply into one topic for their whole career and they know it better than anybody else in the world. I think you can put scientists into two buckets. You’ve spent most of your career uncovering the structure of RNA and never set out to create a tool to copy and paste human genes.
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