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Should DNA be Patentable?
nexex writes: "This story seems brings the patent debate home; specifically, should a company or person be able to 'own' your DNA? Obviously researchers want to profit from their discoveries, thus funding new research. But critics counter they are profitting at the expense of our health, citing restrive screening licenses for things such as breast cancer and Alzheimer's. Citing a figure from a UK activist group, 500,000 gene or gene sequence patents have been applied for worldwide. Another excellent article on this issue from Salon.com was from a couple years ago."
OHH YAH!
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// This is the clever part to create five fingers
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// Unknown glucose-generation sequence
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// This is clearly redundant
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// CTGGGA would have been a better endcap terminator here
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// Compare to monkey DNA, clearly this is similar
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aggtgtgggtcttcgtactacgagaactactgaaagcaggaaggcct
// Patent #41847593 here
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// Heh!
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// A rather elegant protein generation chain
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agacctacaggctgataaccacctcggttgcaaagtccgctttgatc
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taaaactgaaatcatcgcccctgtcctttgcacctgcttttcgcttg
cgattgtgacgaaatctgctaaactgatggctaccgttgtcgcatga
tggcgaagagtcagcctatgcgttaacataacttcttacgctagcga
caagagcaatggcgtgtgtcgcttagggtcaaaacaattggagctgt
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gcaacgtcccccctgagttcagcgccgaccggggcggttcccgtaat
// Not known
ggtgccatcggacggcgggctatattgcaggcagtacgacctccgag
// Patent #49491845 here
ggtcgatggatctgcgtacaatttcacgccccgtaaagcagccatcg
aggtcatttgcgctgcctcttagtgttatatttgggtcacctcaggg
// Not a bad choice
ggctcttacctgtccatcccgccgtacggcgtgacgtcttcccctcg
agttttcctaaattacggggttagtaaactgttggccgcataggact
tgcgatcaataccacgatgctacgtggatttacataccctttagata
gtgtgcacggcatagcaaatacttcaactgtaagcggcatagttctg
You can read about it here. Hopefully, the outcome would be much different if it were to be tried under the American court system.
I'm going to patent light. And while I'm at it the entire electromagnetic spectrum! ::Evil laugh::
Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back!
Just how in the hell is this offtopic? Time to METAMODERATE!
OFFTOPIC??!!@#$ What kind of crack have you moderators been smoking?
Jesus...