March 3, Thursday -- The virtues and difficulties of patenting nanotechnologies will be the topic of a lecture at UC Davis by one of the nation's leading scholars on intellectual property. Mark Lemley ...

A recently granted patent (Publication Number: US11884928B2) discloses a method for modifying a target site in a Kluyveromyces host cell genome. The method involves reducing non-homologous end joining ...

On Tuesday, the two feuding parties of the CRISPR gene editing patent fight entered the boxing ring: attorneys for each side made oral arguments before three-judge panel, in a case that not only puts ...

Green MEP Martin Häusling warns that the Parliament's rapporteur is going rogue in her support for deregulation ...

During her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture in 2018, Frances Arnold said, “Today we can for all practical purposes read, write, and edit any sequence of DNA, but we cannot compose it.” That isn’t true ...

A new infertility technique, mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT), has been used to create so called “three-parent” babies. MRT is used in cases when mothers carry genes for mitochondrial diseases.

The American Civil Liberties Union action in filing a lawsuit yesterday against Myriad Genetics is going to lead to one of the most important legal battles in the history of biotechnology, asserts ...

Can you patent a human gene? Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi of our Planet Money team has the story of how this question wound up at the U.S. Supreme Court and how it raised an even more fundamental question - ...

The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in Assoc. for Mol. Pathology v. USPTO (2010-1406) (informally referred to as the Myriad decision), provides some clarity to entrepreneurs and scientists working ...

Marine organisms have evolved to thrive in various ocean environments, resulting in unique adaptations that make them the object of commercial interest. Researchers have identified 862 marine species, ...

Editor’s Note: Jorge Contreras is a professor at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and an adjunct professor in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah School of ...