Content tagged "Human Genome Project"
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Posted by Christina Couch S.M., Science Writing, 2015
Video and podcast: The Consequences of America’s Miracle Machine
Eric Lander, Maria Zuber, and Communications Forum director Seth Mnookin discuss innovation ethics and the real, and sometimes devastating, effects of invention without culpability.
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Posted by Sarah Schwartz S.M., Science Writing, 2015
Topics: Association of Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, biology, biotechnology, genetics, Human Genome Project, innovation, law, morality, patents, rights, SCOTUSOwning the Code of Life: Human Gene Patents in America
A Supreme Court decision marked a surprising and historic shift in the relationship between patent law and fundamental biology–but questions and uncertainty about a future without gene patents remain.