19 September 2018AmericasPat Carson and Mira Atanassova Mulvaney
CRISPR patents: guidance from US courts
The CRISPR gene manipulation system—an adaptive immune system used by microbes to defend against viruses, which has been repurposed into an efficient and reliable gene-editing technique in mammalian cells—has taken the genome engineering world by storm and has attracted much attention for its immense promise in the development of innovative diagnostic tools and therapies.
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