Who gets ownership of useful genetic data?

These origins also aren’t mentioned in conjunction with other products, including a commercially synthesized enzyme identified as Lb ND2006, 5 milligrams of which sells for $8,695. When Undark first contacted Noel, now an associate professor in the Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences at Aarhus University in Denmark, she wrote back to say she had no idea: “No one has ever contacted me about CRISPR before.🙂” CRISPR provides one example of how biotechnology comes about through efforts to understand biodiversity. The research also illustrates how computation has become fundamental to biology: Algorithms and search tools allow scientists to comb through digital databases, and that data is what powers artificial intelligence programs, like AlphaFold2, the Nobel-prize winning model that predicts protein structures. “It’s being used everywhere,” said Margo Bagley, a former chemical engineer who is now an Asa Griggs Candler professor of law at Emory University School of Law. “People j ... Read full article.