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March 15, 2013 03:37 pm PDT

New lawsuit could prevent scientists from patenting genes

Wikipedia, PDB rendering: "Complex Structure of the BRCA1 RING domain and BARD1 RING domain." Rebecca Skloot writes about an important legal case against Utah-based biotech firm Myriad Genetics, the company that holds the patent on genes identified as markers in breast and ovarian cancer. The company forbids other doctors or companies from testing for them. [...]

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