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Re:CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals by throwaway2016a on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:53PM (#14249951)
MIT Lincoln Labs is owned by MIT but operated relatively independently. It is funded, AFAIK from defense spending. Although I'm slightly surprised it wasn't moved to MIT the University.
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Re:CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals by Cyph0n on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:36PM (#14250853)
I believe that Lincoln Labs was intentionally setup separately because MIT pledged not to do any weapons/defense related research. We have something similar with Georgia Tech and GTRI, but probably not for the same reason.
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