The geopolitical reasons, the reasons for Mojica not winning the Nobel Prize for 'his' CRISPR, and the Biovegen reason
In this extensive opinion piece published in various agricultural online publications, Gonzaga Ruiz de Gauna Gutiérrez, director of Biovegen, analyzes how a European and Spanish discovery, CRISPR, identified by Francis Mojica from Alicante, did not receive the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and how EU laws have hampered and hindered the development of this plant gene-editing technique. Ruiz de Gauna also explains the geopolitical reasons that will allow these difficulties to be overcome and that will soon result in new, more tailored regulations, leading to a surge in European projects of this kind.
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