Key CRISPR players agree to patent pool
The Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard will take part in an initiative to simplify licensing CRISPR genome editing technology to other organisations and institutions...
Clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats.
Naturally occurring in bacteria, segments of DNA used for defence against pathogens.
Used by humans in genome editing: the CRISPR/Cas system used to edit DNA at specific locations in the genome.
The Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard will take part in an initiative to simplify licensing CRISPR genome editing technology to other organisations and institutions...
It’s not often a PhD student finds themselves with a whole hour to break for lunch. So when asked to review one of the Wellcome Trust’s 'Packed Lunch' talks, I jumped at the chance to make better use of some rare free time. The monthly event, situated
by Rachel Siden
China's State Intellectual Property Office has granted the University of California a patent on CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology in the country.
'This technology really gets the imagination going. It's almost anything that you could imagine wanting to control at the level of genetics, is now in principle within reach.' And the power to control evolution raises important questions of responsibility
CRISPR may introduce hundreds of unwanted mutations into the genome, a small study finds...
US scientists have used CRISPR gene-editing to remove HIV DNA from the genomes of living animals, eliminating further infection.
by Brian Nolan
The European Patent Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office have been thrust into a dispute pitting the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Vienna against the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University. Scientists
by Sandy Starr
The Science and Technology Committee of the UK Parliament's House of Commons has published a brief report of its wide-ranging inquiry into genomics and genome editing...
by Jen Willows and 1 others
A new highly sensitive diagnostic system for diseases has been adapted from CRISPR...
by Seán Byrne
A recent Wall Street Journal article, 'DIY Gene Editing: Fast, Cheap – and Worrisome', describes the Saturday afternoon of teenager, Kian Sadeghi, as he learns to use CRISPR/Cas9 at the Genspace Community Lab in Brooklyn, New York. Like many news ar
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