District court overturns patents on breast cancer genes

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 14:35 in Mathematics & Economics

Some 20 percent of the human genome is already patented . But a court ruled yesterday that one company does not have the rights to some of its patents on two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2 , commonly tested...

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