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Stem Cell Patent Torpedoes Research

Posted by michael on from the paying-the-piper dept.

g8orade writes: "This story says the University of Winsconsin owns patents that may prevent anyone spending that federal money soon. "As they carry out President Bush's plan for government financing of embryonic stem cell studies, federal health officials confront a daunting challenge: U.S. patent 6,200,806, a claim to the human embryonic stem cell." Originally in the NYT, this is a link to the not free account-requiring Charlotte Observer."

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  1. My own scheme by quintessent · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I wonder if anyone has bothered to patent oxygen yet...

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