This Court Battle Will Decide Who Will Make a Fortune From Gene-Editing Tech

  • Institutes fight over CRISPR, the ‘discovery of the Century’
  • Victory could determine who gets paid for revolutionary idea

Photographer: Craig Warga/Bloomberg

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Scientists have used the breakthrough gene-editing technology CRISPR to create advances in medicine and agriculture, from ways to eliminate sickle-cell anemia to growing mushrooms that resist browning.

But the battle over who will make money from it is just beginning.