EPISODE · Feb 17, 2017 · 7 MIN
A Patent Decision on Crispr Gene Editing Favors MIT
from Science, Spoken · host SpokenLayer
The fight over who owns the most promising technique for editing genes-cutting and pasting the stuff of life to cure disease and advance scientific knowledge-has been a rough one. A team on the West Coast, at UC Berkeley, filed patents on the method, Crispr-Cas9; a team on the East Coast, based at MIT and the Broad Institute, filed their own patents in 2014 after Berkeley's, but got them granted first. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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The fight over who owns the most promising technique for editing genes-cutting and pasting the stuff of life to cure disease and advance scientific knowledge-has been a rough one. A team on the West Coast, at UC Berkeley, filed patents on the method, Crispr-Cas9; a team on the East Coast, based at MIT and the Broad Institute, filed their own patents in 2014 after Berkeley's, but got them granted first.
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