Monday, October 17, 2005

One-Fifth of Human Genes Have Been Patented, Study Reveals

"It might come as a surprise to many people that in the U.S. patent system human DNA is treated like other natural chemical products," said Fiona Murray, a business and science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and a co-author of the study.


Remember the Onion bit about Microsoft patenting ones and zeroes?

1 comment:

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