Patenting genes: balancing public health and private interest | Globalnews.ca

Blogger's Note: this all relates to the U.S. supreme court case/Myriad patent (BRCA patent) issues; note that Myriad also holds patients such as Colaris (colorectal/Lynch Syndrome)

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Patenting genes

Posted by Genome Alberta via globalnews.ca

 “We’re kind of in the worst of all worlds,” Gold said. “It’s not just the Myriad patents, but it’s a whole bunch of other companies that are coming in as well. They all have similarly constructed patent claims and it’s those that will cause worry.”