Patent Battle Over CRISPR Gene Editing
Let the intellectual property wars begin!
The advent of crispr, a gene-editing tool, has given researchers confidence
that we’re on the verge of the gene-therapy era. George Church and his
Harvard postdocs have culled forty-five promising gene variants, not only
from “super centenarians”—humans who’ve lived to a hundred and ten—but also
from yeast, worms, flies, and long-lived animals.
And we don’t even know how many types of cells there are! Creating a human
is not nearly as easy as creating an A.I., because we’re so very
confusingly and *unintelligently* designed by random changes acted upon by
natural selection.
The CRISPR//Cas9 gene editing tool has quickly earned a reputation as a revolutionary technology, and its merits support the clout. This year has, in fact, seen so many CRISPR-related breakthroughs that it’s worthwhile to take a step back and take in all of the many accomplishments.
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