The director of Biovegen, Gonzaga Ruiz de Gauna Gutiérrez, analyzes in this extensive article published in various agricultural digital platforms how a European and Spanish discovery, CRISPR identified by Alicante native Francis Mojica, did not deserve the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and how in the EU our laws have hindered and obstructed the development of this genetic editing technique for plants. Ruiz de Gauna also explains the geopolitical reasons that will allow overcoming these difficulties and that, soon, will result in a new and more adapted specific regulation, which will lead to an “hatching” of European projects of this kind.
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