Re:Gene Editing Tool Hailed as a Breakthrough, and It Really...
by speeder on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @12:56PM
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More or less... but it might be a country thing.
I am from Brazil, and my sister, and a lab partner of hers are the first persons in Brazil to develop and use a local version of CRISPR, the bugdet of their lab is not that big, and finding reagents was a bit difficult, but not too much, but I think maybe her lab didn't have to pay all the patent licenses, I am not sure.
My sister is currently at MIT learning direct from the source (it was invented at MIT) how to do "real" CRISPR (in the sense that the Brazillian version was made by her and another lab mate reading papers and replicating them, it worked, but in a inconsistant manner, sometimes it worked perfectly, sometimes it failed for no obvious reason, the Brazillian government then decided to pay to send my sister to MIT so she can learn how to do it properly and then come back and teach the others here).
I am from Brazil, and my sister, and a lab partner of hers are the first persons in Brazil to develop and use a local version of CRISPR, the bugdet of their lab is not that big, and finding reagents was a bit difficult, but not too much, but I think maybe her lab didn't have to pay all the patent licenses, I am not sure.
My sister is currently at MIT learning direct from the source (it was invented at MIT) how to do "real" CRISPR (in the sense that the Brazillian version was made by her and another lab mate reading papers and replicating them, it worked, but in a inconsistant manner, sometimes it worked perfectly, sometimes it failed for no obvious reason, the Brazillian government then decided to pay to send my sister to MIT so she can learn how to do it properly and then come back and teach the others here).