Science News Summary: For families of some 9/11 victims, new DNA tools reopen old wounds

For families of some 9/11 victims, new DNA tools reopen old wounds

A breakthrough in DNA analysis is helping identify more victims of Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York, but the scientific advance is of little consolation for families of those whose remains may have been buried in a Staten Island landfill. The official death toll in the attacks on lower Manhattan's World Trade Center is 2,753, including the missing and presumed dead. Only 1,642 of them, or about 60 percent, have been positively identified.

U.S. appeals court upholds MIT, Harvard patents on CRISPR gene editing

A U.S. appeals court on Monday allowed a research center affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University to keep patents potentially worth billions of dollars on a groundbreaking gene editing technology is known as CRISPR. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the validity of the Harvard and MIT patents, rejecting a challenge brought by a rival team of researchers associated with the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Vienna in Austria.

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