Sentences with phrase «patent on genes linked»
A Supreme Court decision in June to strike down a company's patent on genes linked to breast cancer could have far - reaching consequences for biotechnology and medical research.
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Myriad's portfolio also includes patents on methods of analyzing BRCA genes for links to cancer — and these are outside the scope of the current case.
That question will be debated once more on 20 July when Myriad Genetics, a diagnostic company in Salt Lake City, Utah, returns to the US courts to argue that its patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene variants — linked to inherited breast and ovarian cancer — are valid.