Supreme Court rules against patenting human genes

[Crabtownboy]

Good news for we the people....

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that human genes cannot be patented, a victory for cancer patients and their doctors who had challenged a Utah company’s exclusive control over a defective gene sequence that is linked to cancer.

The 9-0 ruling is likely to be welcomed by medical researchers across the nation who have wanted more freedom to experiment with treatments using genetic material.

The justices rejected decisions by the U.S. patent office that allowed companies to claim control over human genes they had isolated.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-supreme-court-dna-patents-20130613,0,4076014.story

 

[Revmitchell]

I agree good news

 

[Don]

DRAT !!!!!!

If this had passed, I was gonna go out and get a patent on trees....