How Jennifer Doudna’s – or Feng Zhang’s – Gene Editing Technique Will Change the World

Sarah Chapin Columbia assessed the upcoming litigation between two major research institutions over which deserves the patent for a gene editing technique, predicting that “The Berkeley lab is going to say they had the building blocks. The MIT-Harvard lab is going to say, ‘We put the building blocks in the right orientation.’ To a patent geek, that’s going to be a very interesting thing to watch.” Read the full article.