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But Josephine Johnston, bioethicist at the nonpartisan Hastings Institute, said she thinks that allowing patents for human genes was probably a mistake. She said she would draw the line ... "Gene patenting should not mean that commercial companies unreasonably profit from those of us unlucky in genetic lotteries," she said.
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Patenting Genes, Gene Fragments, SNPS, Gene Tests, Proteins, and Stem Cells ... Witnesses Testify About Patenting Genes - From Human Genome News, Nov. 2000. ... 1. T. A. Caufield. From human genes to stem cells: new challenges for patent law? Trends in Biotechnology 21: 101-103. March 2003.
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The Medscape Journal ... Allergy & Clinical Immunology ... Diabetes & Endocrinology...
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A new study shows that 20 percent of human genes have been patented in the United States, ... The human genome project and the introduction of rapid sequencing techniques brought a deluge of new genetic information and many new patents. Yet there has been little comprehensive research about the extent of gene patenting.
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''I wrote the book so that we could start to tell a story about how the patent system is being used in an improper way to create monopolies over genes,'' he said yesterday. ... More than 4000 patents had been granted over human genes despite the humanitarian aims behind the Human Genome Project.
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If, therefore, one supposes that, prior to patenting, human genes are collective property, one might be struck by the similarities between patent rights and other forms of private property, rather than by the differences between the right to exclude and the rights of exclusive use and possession that are distinctive...
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Includes the manuscropts of the speakers' - all leading experts in the field of patenting - as well as executiv summaries of the debate and recommendations from the four workshops; 160 pages, 2005; ... The ethics of patenting human genes and stemcells...
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But the Wellcome Trust is prepared to launch a legal battle in the US courts to challenge the legitimacy of patenting human genes, pointing out that more than a third of the human genome is already available on the Internet, with up to 90% of it due to be published by March next year.
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www.science-spirit.org/archive_cm_detail.php?new_id=165
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Rapid advances in biology and genetics are raising fresh concerns about the spreading practice of patenting human genes. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patents to at least 4,382 human genes, including genes related to Alzheimer's,... ... Modern life's pressures may be hastening human evolution...
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