Number of CRISPR patent applications globally by industry sector 2018
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This statistic depicts the number of CRISPR patent applications worldwide in 2018, by industrial sector. According to IPlytics, the total number of patent applications in 2018 stood at nearly 7,500. Of that number, over 4,300 were within biotechnology. CRISPR stands for "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats" and is a family of DNA sequences.
