Os meus genes são meus, não eram?
One-Fifth of Human Genes Have Been Patented in the United States, primarily by private firms and universities. [...]
"It might come as a surprise to many people that in the U.S. patent system human DNA is treated like other natural chemical products," said Fiona Murray, a business and science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and a co-author of the study. [...]
The new study reveals that more than 4,000 genes, or 20 percent of the almost 24,000 human genes, have been claimed in U.S. patents.
Of the patented genes, about 63 percent are assigned to private firms and 28 percent are assigned to universities. [...]
"While this does not quite boil down to [the patent holders] owning our genes ? these rights exclude us from using our genes for those purposes that are covered in the patent"
