Feng Zhang, heavy­weight col­lab­o­ra­tors un­veil lat­est CRISPR up­start — a di­ag­nos­tic com­pa­ny

Im­age: David Walt, Todd Gol­ub, Rahul Dhan­da, Feng Zhang, Deb­o­rah Hung. SHER­LOCK

One of the more dra­mat­ic dy­nam­ics in the aca­d­e­m­ic CRISPR world in­volves the Broad In­sti­tute and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, where Feng Zhang and Jen­nifer Doud­na, two pi­o­neers of the field, have their labs re­spec­tive­ly. As the dust starts to set­tle on their patent dis­pute re­gard­ing ther­a­peu­tic us­es of the gene edit­ing tech, a new storm is brew­ing in the di­ag­nos­tic ap­pli­ca­tions of CRISPR.

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