Pre-existing technological core and roots for the CRISPR breakthrough

• Christopher L. Magee ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: cmagee@mit.edu

  Affiliations MIT Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, SUTD-MIT International Design Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5316-8358

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• Patrick W. Kleyn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation EMD Serono Research & Development Institute, Billerica, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Brendan M. Monks,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

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• Ulrich Betz,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

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• Subarna Basnet

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations SUTD-MIT International Design Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Raysoonga inc., Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9622-6247

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