17 FEBRUARY 2017 • VOLUME 355 • ISSUE 6326
CONTEN TS
693 & 748 Reprogramming fibroblasts to treat scars
NEWS
IN BRIEF
670 News at a glance
IN DEPTH
673 EUROPEAN GRAVI TATIONAL WAVE
DETECTOR FALTERS
Fragile glass fibers hurt Virgo’s
chances to observe in 2017 with U.S.
counterpart By D. Clery
674 DEMISE OF STREAM RULE WON’T
REVITALIZE COAL INDUSTRY
Obama-era regulation one of several
recent environmental rules targeted by
Trump and Republicans in Congress
By W. Cornwall
675 Congress sharpens its regulatory ax
By Science News Staff
675 A YELLOW LIGH T FOR
EMBRYO EDITING
Panel would allow modifying germline
DNA By J. Kaiser
676 DROP IN FOREIGN APPLICANTS
WORRIES ENGINEERING SCHOOLS
Graduate deans cite anti-immigrant
rhetoric as applications from overseas
students decline by up to 30%
By J. Mervis
688 RELIEF FOR RE TINAL NEURONS
UNDER PRESSURE
A dietary supplement may
offer protection from loss of vision
in glaucoma
By J. Crowston and I. Trounce
▶ REPORT P. 756
689 FIGHTING THE ENEMY WITHIN
Halting the rise in antibiotic-
resistant infections requires drugs
that selectively target pathogens
in microbiota
By E. Tacconelli et al.
690 ILLUMINATING AMINATION
Formation of C–N bonds gets an
energetic boost from photogenerated
radical cations
By T. L. Buchanan and K. L. Hull
▶ REPORT P. 727
692 DWARF PLANE T CERES AND
THE INGREDIENTS OF LIFE
The Dawn spacecraft finds
evidence for organic material
and water ice on Ceres
By M. Küppers
▶ REPORT P. 719
693 FIBROBLASTS BECOME FAT TO
REDUCE SCARRING
Pathologic scarring could be avoided
by manipulating fibroblast plasticity
By C. K. F. Chan and M. T. Longaker
▶ REPORT P. 748
695 OLIVER SMITHIES (1925–2017)
A biochemist who pioneered
gene targeting technology
By A. Sancar
POLICY FORUMS
696 ENSURING SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY
IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
Policies to protect government
scientists must be defended
By G. T. Goldman et al.
698 CRISPR, SURROGATE LICENSING,
AND SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY
Have research universities
abandoned their public focus?
By J. L. Contreras and J. S. Sherkow
▶ NEWS STORY P. 680
677 EASIER CURE FOR RESISTANT TB
Pill-based regimen offers hope against
HIV-linked disease By J. Cohen
678 PARASITIC WORM MAY TRIGGER
M YSTERY NODDING SYNDROME
Autoimmune response to river blindness
parasite could be the cause—suggesting
parasite control could halt crisis By G. Vogel
▶ SCI. TRANSL. MED. RESEARCH ARTICLE BY T. P.
JOHNSON E T AL. 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf6953
679 FAILED SPINAL CORD TRIAL OFFERS
CAU TIONAR Y TALE
Collaborators contend clinical stem
cell lines lacked support from animal
studies By K. Servick
FEATURE
680 THE BIRTH OF CRISPR INC.
How a community fractured as a
revolutionary genome-editing
tool became a business By J. Cohen
▶ POLICY FORUM P. 698
678
INSIGHTS
PERSPECTIVES
686 SWEE T RELIEF FOR POLLINATORS
Does ingestion of nectar ameliorate
oxidative damage?
By C. Martinez del Rio and M. E. Dillon