When speed truly matters, openness is the answer.
In this paper I analyse the ethical implications of the two main competing methodologies in genomic research. I do not aim to provide another contribution from the mainstream legal and public policy perspective; rather I offer a novel approach in which I analyse and describe the patent-and-publish r...
| Publicado en: | Bioethics Vol. 23; no. 7; pp. 385 - 394 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2009
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