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blackbootz  ·  2984 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Villain of CRISPR

    So it really is a situation where lab notebooks are out and whoever has the earlier scrawled notes and wherever that grey definition of "invented" is drawn will decide which university gets a whole lot of money.

Is there not any precedent as to what happens in cases like these? I feel like I've been hearing about patents on gene mapping, gene editing, even genes themselves, for a while now.

And an aside: how ground breaking is CRISPR? I've read a little bit about it, and listened to a Radiolab episode where a science writer answers questions that the hosts put to him, but I don't quite understand its scope. CRISPR is a gene editor. Had there been no editor before?