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1 October 2019GeneticsRory O'Neill

CRISPR: A licence to heal

Few areas of emerging research have generated as much excitement in the life sciences community as CRISPR/Cas9, a gene-editing system which relies on the cas9 enzyme to alter DNA. But who invented it and who owns it?

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