Re: RAFI Press Release: Indigenous Person Patented
LawrencegL (lawrencegl@aol.com)
Tue, 10 Oct 1995 13:44:21 -0400
I'm disappointed in this press release in that they mentioned nothing
about how the sample was obtained. Obviously they did not patent a whole
human; we don't currently know all of the sequences in any one human much
less multiple people. This smacks of mere anti-science with no sense of
what the genome project is about. I'm also opposed to patenting of
sequences human or animal but the reality is that the federal courts have
so far backed up the companies and the NIH. A little better information
from the RAFI would have been useful.
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