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How to make sure we all benefit when nonprofits patent technologies like CRISPR

  • Written by Shobita Parthasarathy, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
imageAre research nonprofits holding up their end of the tax-exempt bargain?Will Hart, CC BY

Universities and other nonprofit research institutions are under increasing fire about their commitments to the public interest. In return for tax-exempt status, their work is supposed to benefit society.

But are they really operating in the public interest when...

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