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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.