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A comment on Why the University of California Is Appealing the CRISPR Patent Decision. Parent comment

Re:Why the University of California Is Appealing the CRISPR ... by ajross on Sunday April 16, 2017 @05:41PM (#14127689)
To be fair, CRISPR-based technology looks to be a much, much bigger deal than Page Rank. It's not really much of a stretch to analogize this to the invention of the planar transistor, or the internal combustion engine.
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Re:Why the University of California Is Appealing the CRISPR ... by x0x0 on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:54AM (#14129431)
PCR -- an essential step for all sorts of DNA analysis -- was worth $2B to Roche

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1523369/

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Re:Why the University of California Is Appealing the CRISPR ... by hyperbovine on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:34AM (#14129377)
Deep breath. ICE and the transistor have been around for decades. Centuries in fact, in the case of the former. It's not even clear that pagerank is being used now; I can almost guarantee you it won't be in 50 years. Given the pace of biotech discovery I suspect CRISPR won't either.
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