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>>Runi Limary, a 36-year-old breast cancer survivor, told USA TODAY that one of the patented genes showed up in her body when she was 28. Suspecting ovarian can
by deletes 14y ago
>>Runi Limary, a 36-year-old breast cancer survivor, told USA TODAY that one of the patented genes showed up in her body when she was 28. Suspecting ovarian cancer, she debated having her ovaries removed, but couldn’t get a second opinion because Myriad held a patent on the mutated gene that she developed.<<
What ! ?
- rayiner 14y agoMyriad has a patent on a medical test that uses the presence of particular mutations to screen for cancer.
- carbocation 14y agoMyriad has a patent on the BRCA genes in isolation. It does not have a patent on just a test. If it did, then nobody would care, because we could perform alternative tests to acquire the same information in a different, non-infringing way.