StarTalk Podcast: The Code of Life and CRISPR with Jennifer Doudna and Walter Isaacson

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Start 1:10 for discussion of Doudna and The Code Breaker

Additionally, the ethics of gene editing is being handled by both this scientist patent holder (15 patents) along with the public labs at their universities -- Berkeley and Harvard, the DoD and the National Academy of Sciences. There shouldn't be public worry about corporate patent control.

Look up hers and Charpentier's lead lawyer, Eldora Ellison, who has explained to the federal judiciary the nuances of both biology and law. SCOTUS could use at least one justice who understands both biology and technology. I'd love for Biden to nominate her.

Because Ellison's explanations of science and law to both the U.S. Patent Office and the U.S. Court of Appeals are on record, Doudna and Charpentier have also been awarded, as of 2020, major patents in Britain, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Mexico.

Doudna wrote the initial version of this 2015 report by Paul Berg (father of recombinant DNA), of what was the Napa conference. The conference report suggests ethical guidelines. It got coverage on page 1 of The New York Times, though the paper's headline was misleading.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4394183/

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