[quick news] on February 15, 2019, the University of California will be authorized, and CRISPR patent war will start again

The University of California will be authorized CRISPR patent war will start again The complicated intellectual property structure in the field of gene editing will start again According to a document recently issued by the U.S patent and Trademark Office, the crispr-cas9 basic patent applied by the University of California in March 2013 will be authorized For many years, CRISPR patent competition was mainly between Zhang Feng's team of Bode Research Institute and dudner's team of the University of California, Berkeley Although it is the first patent applied by the University of California, Berkeley, the Bode Research Institute obtained the CRISPR application patent in the field of eukaryotic through fast channel As a result, the dudner team proposed a "Conflict Review" process to veto the patent of the Bode Institute In fact, after six years of litigation, which cost tens of millions of dollars, the Bode Institute has initially shown willingness to cooperate Even so, the competition for patents will last for a long time due to the amazing value of the technology in the market Http://digitalpaper.stdaily.com/http_ Div = - 1 to ensure the status of "scientific power": France's first national research strategy is about to come out Recently, the French government announced that it will implement its first national research strategy in 2021 Although the details have not yet been finalized, the French government said that the strategy aims to provide stable financial support and better career prospects for scientists at all levels, especially young scientists, so as to help France stand out in the international context of increasingly fierce competition in scientific research, which is an important opportunity to "ensure that France remains a scientific power" The move was warmly welcomed by the head of France's main research institutions However, some scientists are cautiously optimistic They believe that increasing new investment is crucial for French research Https:// Japan has developed polymer materials that can be recovered after disconnection The research team of Japan Institute of science and chemistry and Kyushu University, Japan, used scandium, a rare earth metal, as a catalyst, to successfully synthesize a polyolefin polymer material from ethylene and benzoyl propylene under normal pressure This new material has strong flexibility and elasticity, and like liquid, even if it is cut off, it will automatically recover by the interaction between molecules It was found that this material not only has the ability of self repair and shape memory in the air, but also in water, acid and alkaline aqueous solutions without any additional force The research results provide important guidance for the design and development of self-healing materials in the future Http://m.xinhuanet.com/2019-02/11/c_.htm the key point for new machine learning algorithm to help drug development and speed up drug discovery is to predict whether molecules will activate a specific physiological process Recently, the research team of Cambridge University and Pfizer Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd have developed an algorithm that uses mathematical operations to separate the chemical models related to pharmacology from those related to pharmacology What's important is that the algorithm not only studies the known active molecules, but also those inactive molecules, and learns to identify which parts of the molecules are important for drug action and which parts are not, so that those failed experiments (data) can also be effectively used The efficiency of the new method has been proved to be twice that of the current industry standard, which helps to speed up the development of new drugs Https:// a large number of organic molecules have been found in the disc of young planets A joint research group composed of Kyunghee University of Korea and Tokyo University of Japan has used Alma telescope to study the v883 constellation Orion, which surrounds the young star The complex organic molecules, including methanol, acetaldehyde, methyl formate, acetonitrile, acetone, ethylene oxide, formic acid and methanethiol, have been found in the disk of the protoplanetary system (the disk of the protoplanetary system), of which acetone was found for the first time The star is in a state of rapid brightening, so the temperature in the disk rises, and a variety of organic molecules trapped in the ice are released as gases This study provides an important clue to explore the organic molecules in the protoplanetary disk https://