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Oct 11, 2020

2 women won the Nobel for CRISPR, but the battle for its patent rages on

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry

This week Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a process to edit DNA known as CRISPR Cas-9. But the announcement, which comes amid a years-long battle over who owns the methodology to make genomic edits, is bittersweet.

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