Human Trials Underway In China For SARS Vaccine

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 25, 2004 @02:16PM from the moving-quickly dept.

da_foz writes "A SARS vaccine has begun human trials in Beijing. The vaccine was devoloped with the help of some open source software, a couple details about what was used can be found here. Here is an interesting quote from the second link: 'The Director of the Genome Sciences Centre, Dr. Marco Marra, said he personally requested that his name not be included on the patent application as the scientist who found the genetic sequence. "This stems largely from a personal belief that DNA sequence is a discovery as opposed to an invention and should not be patentable," he said.'"

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Re:Patented Discoveries by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-25 15:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The 4 rules of karma whoredom:
1. After writing a stupid joke write "It's Funny, Laugh!" (note: Funny moderation doesn't give good karma, but the writer's of the comments don't usually know this)
2. Ask a retarded question about something that is painfully described in the article, first post style.
3. Respond to your own post with "MOD UP PARENT!"
4. Post a statement high up in a discussion that has nothing to do with the parent post to get visibility.