CRISPR: careless talk costs patents

The identification of the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/Cas9 system for gene editing of eukaryotes has led to an explosion of research in this area due to the far-reaching applications of the system. This in turn has led to a race to carve out valuable commercial protection for CRISPR/Cas9 and use of this system in various applications.