DuPont, a chemical producer that also works in agribusiness. DuPont has a record of polluting the environment with C8, a toxic chemical linked to various cancers. The Broad Institute has licensed its CRISPR genome-editing patent (obtained in a brazen act of privatization) to DuPont for use in agricultural applications (in spite of Broad's claims that it seeks to understand and alleviate diseases, like the cancers to which DuPont has contributed).
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The Broad Institute has licensed their CRISPR genome-editing patent (obtained in a brazen act of privatization) to DuPont for use in agricultural applications, in spite of DuPont's history of polluting the environment with C8, a toxic chemical linked to various cancers, diseases Broad claims it seeks to understand and alleviate.