Legacy: a tribute to Terri Grodzicker of Genes & Development [Essays]

Ronald M. Evans The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037, USA Corresponding author: evanssalk.edu

Finally, I can sit in the catbird seat and pass judgement on the Editor!

Typically, Editors at a newspaper oversee content and yet are rarely contented. Why? The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Fox often get the same news at the same time and yet will spin it in three completely different ways to be in print the next day. Thus, news Editors are rarely contented, as much content needs to be left out because tomorrow's paper is only hours away. In addition, a draft newspaper story will not be sent to three or four (or more) anonymous and picky expert reviewers for 3 months who will inevitably ask for 6 months’ worth of additional experiments. If so, there would be no newspapers! In contrast, for scientific journals like Genes & Development to survive, dissecting each point is important, and ultimately the need for additional facts to clarify the original facts is painful but unavoidable. Even then many revised manuscripts are rejected, as often reviewer 3 (you know who you are) says the data are fine but the revised manuscript lacks novelty. For papers that make the cut, it still usually takes months, and the risk of being scooped while under revision is not uncommon.

The founding of G&D occurred in the “emergentism” of the mid-1990s to tackle the confluence of multiple fields under the large umbrella of molecular biology but centered on nucleic acids, genomic regulatory mechanisms, and broader concepts of biological processes that were cascading into a new science. With G&D based in the heart of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory campus, it was time to take advantage of the environment and take the risk of doing something new. Thus, with a strong foundation from its inception, G&D was born. And with a …

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