> If they isolate a gene that makes a person immune to a specific desease then found a way to package and distribute that gene, could they patent it? Aspirin b

> If they isolate a gene that makes a person immune to a specific desease then found a way to package and distribute that gene, could they patent it? Aspirin became newly protected because of a distribution method Bayer invented, so yes, regardless of whether the sequence itself is patented.