Did you know that it is legal to patent a gene?
According to US law, it is. In 1980, the Supreme Court heard the case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty, which became a landmark for genetic science in terms of being able to lay claim to certain parts of the genome. While working for GE, Chakrabarty had developed a strain [...]
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In honor of Charles Darwin's upcoming 200th birthday (it's February 12th), the editors of Nature decided to publish a selection of twelve different examples of evolution that have been uncovered by researchers in the past thirty or so years. Wired's science blog spotlights those examples here.
We have learned that there are two primary factors that drive [...]
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