I worked at the Broad in a past life. I find it shocking that Cell let Lander publish his article without a conflict of interest statement, considering a) a key patent just went into interference proceedings and b) most people assume a Nobel will be issued in the not-too-distant future and the Broad would benefit greatly from having sponsored Nobel-winning science.

Take, for example, Church's newly released comment that he was NOT "aware of Zhang’s efforts" like Lander claims he was in the article when his lab tried to move CRISPR into a mammalian system. Zhang et al. are trying to paint the move to a mammalian system as a key moment of invention, making it patent-worthy. If another scientist's first instinct is to do the exact same thing, it suggests that such a move is "obvious to a person skilled in the art" and casts doubt on the novelty of Zhang's work.