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In Business: Gene Patenting

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Gene Patenting

08/08/2013

BBC Radio 4 - In Business, Gene Patenting

Peter Day asks whether gene patenting is a good or bad thing for medical innovation.

A recent US Supreme Court ruling found that companies cannot patent things found in nature. Peter Day asks what this means for the biotech business.

Ever since the mapping of the human genome was completed 10 years ago medical companies have been rushing to patent genes that define all of us for their own exclusive use. Now the US Supreme Court has ruled against patenting things found in nature. Peter Day asks what this means for the biotech business.and for the future of healthcare.

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