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Patent Fight Over Gene-Editing Technology CRISPR Heads To Patent Court
ResumeThree federal patent judges will hear oral arguments Tuesday in a heated dispute over a gene-editing technology known as CRISPR — clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.
CRISPR is widely hailed as a revolution in biology, making it easier for researchers to tweak genes, like a molecular scissors. We check in with Carey Goldberg on the fight and what's at stake.
Guest
Carey Goldberg, host of WBUR's Commonhealth, which tweets @commonhealth.
This segment aired on December 5, 2016.