Patenting Genes: A Fast and Furious Primer.

Patents have been issued in the United States for genes and gene sequences since 1980. Patent protection has provided incentives to aggressively probe the genome of humans and non-humans alike in search of profitable applications. Yet it is not clear that patent protection should have been afforded...

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Published in:	International Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 267 - 276
Main Author:	Askland, Andrew
Format:	Article
Published:	Philosophy Documentation Center Fall2003
Subjects:	Patents Genetic code Nucleotide sequence Genes Gene patents Genetic research United States
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