Re:The Villain of CRISPR
by Malarkey73 on Monday January 25, 2016 @02:50PM
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There is a big difference between PCR and CRISPR though. Whilst PCR is effectively a reading technology, CRISPR is a writing technology. For many medical technologies then PCR is a standalone diagnostic tool (it is HUGE in mol. biol., pathology, biotech). However you can quite easily see CRISPR being a core tech within revolutionary deliverable medical treatments.
As Eisen points out its kind of odd that the group who rush to do the obvious human implementation should then get a share of all this potential... Not really a novel invention by that point in my opinion.
Re:The Villain of CRISPR
by hmahncke on Monday January 25, 2016 @03:29PM
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Yes, exclusively licensing CRISPR on an indication-by-indication basis as a therapeutic itself (as someone below has suggested has already happened by Broad) would be worrisome.
As Eisen points out its kind of odd that the group who rush to do the obvious human implementation should then get a share of all this potential... Not really a novel invention by that point in my opinion.