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.
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.
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.
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 Jen Willows
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...
An international team has rewritten the genetic code of five chromosomes in yeast — one third of the organism's entire genome...
by Ryan Ross
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...
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...
by Paul Waldron
A single-celled organism lacking mitochondria — cellular structures thought to be essential for all complex lifeforms — has been identified by scientists...
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to scientists who discovered the cellular mechanisms for repairing damaged DNA...
Professor John Archibald masterfully tells the incredible tale of passionate scientists, their hair-raising experiments, and the ancient cellular alliances that spawned multicellular life as we know it...
US researchers have used the CRISPR/Cas9 system to target hepatitis C infection in human cells...
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