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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 04:54 PM EDT |
I love science and humanity too, but I think you underestimate how expensive it
is to do this type of research.
It's ok if you believe that companies shouldn't make profits off discovering
associations between genes and disease. But unless you're willing to increase
funding to universities (via the National Institutes of Health), you should know
that it is likely that genetic tests for various conditions won't emerge as
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| Authored by: Yossarian on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 06:17 PM EDT |
I don't agree.
A trade secret may be discovered, independently, by other
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 04:49 AM EDT |
From the website:
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics is a
research institute of the University of Oxford, funded by the University, the
Wellcome Trust and numerous other sponsors. Our objective is to undertake
research into the genetic basis of common conditions.
Specifically, we
aim to:
identify the genes and DNA variants involved;
understand how these DNA variants may contribute to risk of disease in
the population;
understand how such genetic factors contribute
biologically to a disease process;
and develop statistical and
experimental tools to support these investigations.
We work through
the Centre's multidisciplinary research teams in human genetics, functional
genomics, bioinformatics, statistical genetics, genomic epidemiology and
structural biology, and by collaborating with research groups across the
world.
The Wellcome Trust played a major part in the analysis and
documentation of the human genome.
Myriad took the freely published
work of the Wellcome Trust Centre and other open scientific organisations' works
on the human genome and the relationship of genetic factors to common medical
conditions and was awarded the monetization of part of that freely provided
research, by the US Patent Office.
The Wellcome Trust provided the
giant shoulders on which these midget 'inventors' stood to make
money.
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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