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Senior Party The Broad Institute, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (collectively, Broad ) filed its motion in opposition to Junior Party The University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, CVC ) motion for priority in Interference No. 106,115. Although Broad argued in its own priority motion that the invention as defined by the Count was one that could only be conceived once it was reduced to practice (a standard originally applied to since-invalidated claims to isolated DNA) and, not coincidentally that Broad s earliest actual reduction to practice (ARTP) antedated CVC s ARTP, in its opposition to CVC s priority motion, Broad takes a more conservative albeit more strongly supported tack.
By Walter Isaacson
The coronavirus pandemic forced Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier to accept the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry virtually, instead of actually attending the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciencesâ annual December ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, where the king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, would have given each of them an 18-karat gold medal along with a congratulatory handshake. This yearâs gala, like so many events everywhere, was canceled for the first time in decades.
The landmark research that brought Doudna and Charpentier to the pinnacle of global acclaim has the potential to control future pandemics â either by outwitting the next viral plague through better screening and treatment or by engineering human beings with better disease resistance programmed into their cells. The technique of gene editing that they patented, which goes by the unwieldy acronym of CRISPR-Cas9, makes it possible to selectively snip and alter bits of DNA as t