Sentences with phrase «how gene patent»
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Representatives from both the scientific and legal communities expressed outrage that patent rights to genes could be awarded on the basis of work that provided no insight into how the gene might function.
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HOW»S this for a brain teaser: gene patents scrapped last year on the grounds that they were based on natural molecules were last week reinstated on the grounds that the molecules are, after all, unnatural.
The Australian legal jousting comes as that nation's policymakers pursue a trio of initiatives that could have far - reaching implications for how Australia handles biomedical patents, including those on human genes.
Gene patents, how do you get them and why are they there?
Let me show how the distinction is both missing and operative in the case of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene patents.
«People we've spoken with at Health Canada are delighted because they're grappling with whole exome / whole genome sequencing where you literally sequence a patient's genes and even one patent on one mutation could be enough to thwart the power of the test, so they've been happy with the result and looking at how it might affect them,» he says.