#absci researchers staying ahead of climate change
It’s been called “a game changer”, “the technology of the future”, and “revolutionary”. It’s also the subject of a massive and bitter patent dispute that grabbed headlines again this week. Whatever the outcome of the court battle over ownership of CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing technology, in just under five years it has already changed impossible to possible.
Researchers at Ohio State University discover an antibiotic-resistant gene in hogs - but no threat to food safety.
Genetic ownership could come under serious question if companies can patent naturally occurring DNA segments in cattle. And that has already happened in Australia.
Genes from the wild auroch live on in domestic cattle breeds and we may be able to tease them back out.
