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by Adam Johnston

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Filed under: Courts, Dna, Genetics, Patenting, Science, Society

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It is encouraging to see that a spirit of bipartisanship is being brought to the issue of patenting human genes.

Every cell of our body reveals our heritage down through the ages. Photo: AFP.

However, it will take more than a recent House of Representatives motion calling for an end to the patenting of isolated human DNA to achieve change.

Despite the US Federal Court finding patents for the BRCA1 and 2 genes invalid, the weight of precedent is against the finding being upheld.

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Jane says:

07:22am | 18/11/10

My big question is how can you truly patent the human genome when there is so much variation in it and its changing all the time? Or has someone decided that this particular sequence is pure human and the rest of us are just mutants? Read more »
sol says:

10:39pm | 17/11/10

(make that 3 problems ...) Read more »

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