Graduate seminar: Life Itself

Engl 226/F&M 252 | UC Santa Barbara | Fall 2009

Legal challenge to human-gene patents

Posted by rraley on November 3, 2009

From Wired (November 2, 2009):

“A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer….

 

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