A CRISPR patent win for a Gene-Editing startup

A patent involving CRISPR has been issued to a biotech startup, Caribou Biosciences in Berkeley, which was co-founded by Jennifer Doudna. The University of California, Berkeley, scientist stated that the CRISPR was invented along with French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier, and the claim was disputed by rival researcher, Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Zhang’s CRISPR patents were issued first and are licensed to the recently established public therapeutics company, Editas Medicine, among others. [more]