Pre-existing technological core and roots for the CRISPR breakthrough.

This paper applies objective methods to explore the technological origins of the widely acclaimed CRISPR breakthrough in the technological domain of genome engineering. Previously developed patent search techniques are first used to recover a set of patents that well-represent the genome editing dom...

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Main Authors: Christopher L Magee, Patrick W Kleyn, Brendan M Monks, Ulrich Betz, Subarna Basnet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6145527?pdf=render