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Use the patent system to regulate gene editing

Governments should use patents to shape the deployment of CRISPR–Cas9 as they have done for past technologies, argues Shobita Parthasarathy.
  1. Shobita Parthasarathy

    1. Shobita Parthasarathy is professor and director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

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Next month, researchers, policymakers, ethicists and social scientists will meet in Hong Kong for the second International Summit on Human Gene Editing.

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Nature 562, 486-488 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07108-3

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