[discuss-dan] Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The race to buy life

["getmelissa@uswest.net" <getmelissa@uswest.net>]

The race to buy life Carve up of the human heart: private firms,
universities and charities are rushing to isolate and patent human genes
before it is even understood what they do .

Special report: the ethics of genetics 
James Meek, science correspondent 
                                                                 
Wednesday November 15, 2000 
The race for commercial control over the essence of life is threatening
to spiral out of control with private firms, universities and charities
claiming exclusive development rights over natural processes in the
human body at the rate of 34,500 a month. 

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,397802,00.html


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