Gene-Editing Technology for Free? MIT, Harvard, UC in Heated Debate to Privatize CRISPR : News : Nature World News

"CRISPR, or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a revolutionary gene-editing tool that allows scientists to almost literally 'edit' DNA. Its unparalleled ease and precision have allowed researchers to unlock various new possibilities in the realm of genetics.

However, it appears two institutions -- MIT and Harvard's Broad Institute and University of California, Berkeley -- are locked in a cage match that can decide whether or not CRISPR will be privatized."