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But our politicians have decided otherwise and allows for patents even on DNA sequences that weren't even constructed but merely discovered.
by bjelkeman-again 14y ago
But our politicians have decided otherwise and allows for patents even on DNA sequences that weren't even constructed but merely discovered.
- El_Mariachi 14y agoThose patents are on identifying, isolating, and extracting those sequences. Making a new copy of them in your body (or in the case of soybeans, growing the plant, which obviously involves DNA replication) isn't infringing, but doing anything else useful with them is.