Broad Institute responds to Berkeley CRISPR patent appeal
The Broad Institute has filed arguments ahead of the upcoming CRISPR patent appeal hearing...
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An organism consisting of a cell or cells in which the genetic material is DNA packaged into chromosomes, and contained within a distinct nucleus. All animals, plants and fungi are eukaryotes.
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EPO awards CRISPR patent to European biotech
German-based company MilliporeSigma has announced that the European Patent Office intends to approve its CRISPR patent for use in eukaryotic cells...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
CRISPR patent dispute ramps up with filing of court appeal
The University of California has moved to appeal a decision of the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board over the use of CRISPR in eukaryotic cells...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
China sides with Berkeley on CRISPR patent
China's State Intellectual Property Office has granted the University of California a patent on CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology in the country.
The CRISPR patent dispute - Europe and the US
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
University of California win CRISPR patent battle in Europe
The European Patent Office has declared that it intends to grant a broad patent for the use of CRISPR technologies to the University of California, the University of Vienna and Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max-Planck Institute in Berlin...
Complete synthetic yeast organism almost a reality
An international team has rewritten the genetic code of five chromosomes in yeast — one third of the organism's entire genome...
Broad Institute CRISPR patents upheld
The US Patent and Trademark Office has upheld the right of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to the genome-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9...
Hearings begin in CRISPR US patent dispute
Oral arguments from lawyers acting for the Broad Institute and the University of California, Berkeley, in the high-profile CRISPR/Cas9 patent dispute have been heard in Virginia...
Nucleus, but no mitochondria — scientists probe weird organism
A single-celled organism lacking mitochondria — cellular structures thought to be essential for all complex lifeforms — has been identified by scientists...