Nobel Prize for Chemistry won by two women!

[ErrolTheDragon]

Some good news - two women being recognised for their great work.

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/press-release/

The subsection of Doudna's wikipedia entry sets out a bit more detail on the patent battle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Doudna#CRISPR-Cas9_genome_editing_discovery

(Being wikipedia I can't vouch for its accuracy obviously, but it's interesting that the European patents office went the other way.)

Careful now people...

We don't need any more protected groups in the oppression Olympics

Morris dancer and top scientist = Roy dommett, from memory.

(Sorry for the lack of link, and thanks to those who did my homework for me! )

This was the one that came up in my disorganized mountain of bookmarks: Bitter fight over CRISPR patent heats up : Nature News & Comment