Does CRISPR-Cas open new possibilities for patents or present a moral maze?

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 331-333

  Webber, Philip ^a  

^a Oxford Office of Trade Mark and Patent Attorneys   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CARCINOGENIC ACTIVITY; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INDEL MUTATION; MICROORGANISM; MORALITY; NONHUMAN; PATENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ANIMAL; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ETHICS; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; PATENTS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84900854113     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.2843     Document Type: Article

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