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High court throws out human gene patents

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High court throws out human gene patents


Health | 206779 hits | Mar 26 5:31 pm | Posted by: Curtman
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The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling allowing human genes to be patented, a topic of enormous interest to cancer researchers, patients and drug makers.

Comments

  1. by avatar Scape
    Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:58 am
    Here is a good reason why they SHOULD patent it:



    Without profit big pharma simply can not do the research required.

  2. by jeff744
    Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:15 am
    Exactly correct, there is a reason big pharma are out to annihilate generic brands of drugs, they spend hundreds of millions making the drug, they need to get their money back and make enough to spend on the next drug which will likely cost even more to make.

  3. by avatar DrCaleb
    Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:01 pm
    "Scape" said
    Here is a good reason why they SHOULD patent it:

    Without profit big pharma simply can not do the research required.


    But if it is patented, we lose control over it. Our genes do not belong to us, they belong to our decendants.

  4. by avatar Dragon-Dancer
    Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:23 pm
    Patents should be on the process, the test or the drug that was the outcome not on the gene sequence itself. They didn't invent it so it doesn't belong to them. The courts got it right.



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