Bill Gates is funding Intellia, another company founded to take advantage of it.
Katrine Bosley is the CEO of Editas, a company founded to leverage this technology. Bill Gates is funding Intellia, another company founded to take advantage of it. Early work on this technology was done at Danisco by Philippe Horvath and Rodolphe Barrangou while figuring out how to improve the efficiency of making (*) yogurt.  Eric Lander wrote a controversial paper on the "heroes" of this technology that did not disclose his conflict of interest.  It's not coffee, by a company called Caribou is using this technology to fulfill a mushroom contract with DuPont.  Feng Zhang paid $70 to expedite his patent application for this technology, which may ultimately prove decisive in a lawsuit against Jennifer Doudna, another possible inventor who is backed by Berkeley.  Cpf1 is one nuclease which can be used in this technology, which along with RNA cuts and guides a new sequence into the genome.  For 10 points, name this gene editing technology.
Katrine Bosley is the CEO of Editas, a company founded to leverage this technology.
Crispr-Cas9 [or Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats] 