Heffel, Matthew G.
Finnigan, Gregory C.
Funding for this research was provided by:
United States Department of Agriculture | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (Hatch Project 1013520)
Article History
Received: 5 January 2019
Accepted: 19 November 2019
First Online: 27 December 2019
Competing interests
: G.C.F. has applied for CRISPR-related patents: (i) April 20, 2017 by the Univ. of California, Berkeley, “Methods and Compositions for Genomic Editing” International Application No. PCT/US2017/028676 and published as No. WO 2017/189336 A1 on November 2, 2017, (ii) September 29, 2017 (U.S. Provisional Patent Application Serial No. 62/565,651, “Programmed modulation of CRISPR/Cas9 activity”) followed by patent filing on January 31, 2018 and (iii) a PCT application “Multi-Locus Gene Drive System” No. PCT/US2019/041538 on July 12, 2019. M.G.H. has private investments in companies that may utilize various CRISPR-related biotechnologies. Authors declare no non-financial conflict of interest of any kind.