By Simon Owens
Nicole King didn't know whether she was permitted to share her scientific research with a journalist or obligated to keep it under wraps until it was published by a peer-reviewed journal.
King, an associate professor of genetics, genomics, and development in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at Berkeley, was confronted by this uncertainty after having presented a paper at the 71st annual meeting held by the Society for Developmental Biology in July 2012.