Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Harper's Weekly "Canada's supreme court ruled that Harvard may
not patent a mouse designed to get cancer, upholding a
decision by the commissioner of patents. 'If you start
treating a living organism as a mere composition of matter,'
said a spokesman for the commissioner, 'there's nothing to
stop us from treating all life forms in that way. The danger
is that we treat everyone and everything like a product.'"
Yay team on the patent ruling. That we're engineering mice to get cancer is not exactly comforting, however. 10:15:19 AM | permalink | Bare your teeth [] |
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