The Supreme Court is poised to take up the highly charged question of whether human genes can be patented. It is often said that one-fifth of the roughly 20,000 human genes are patented. But in a study, Christopher Holman, a professor of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, found that many of those patents merely mentioned genes but would not block genetic testing, and many patents had been allowed to lapse. Read more.
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