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11 September 2018Americas

Federal Circuit sides with Broad Institute in CRISPR clash

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed a win to the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT yesterday, after finding that the research institute is entitled to some patents covering CRISPR technology.

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