Hasnain says:

The main thing I'm taking away from the whole CRISPR story is that science is now just copying politics while trying to claim the moral high ground

"But if I had my way, there would be no winner in either of these fights. The way prizes like the Nobel give disproportionate credit to a handful of individuals is an injustice to the way science really works. We should celebrate the long series of discoveries and inventions that brought CRISPR to the forefront of science, and all the people who participated in them, rather than trying to decide which three were the most important. And I do not believe either Berkeley or MIT should have patents on CRISPR, since I believe it is a disservice to science and the public for academic scientists to ever claim intellectual property in their work"

Posted on 2016-01-25T16:31:39+0000