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BladeD
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UNiRAC
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Re: The ..........U.S. Supreme Court decision on the viability of the BRCA1 patent.
----------------------------------------http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/gene-patents-and-personalized-medicine/ ----------------------------------------  Here is the actual court decision.http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_8njq.pdf  Are You REALLY Computing?  |
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UNiRAC
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 A quote from SgtJoE ''... a company can patent a gene.?!?!?!?! [sic]They should be able to patent a test for a gene, but not the gene itself because it occurred naturally. Now if it was a gene which did not exist in nature, but they "invented" a new gene, then that maybe should be patentable. Jonas Salk did not patent his polio vaccine, but made it available to the world.'' But even a single Co, charging big test fees to detect breast cancer is obscene!  Are You REALLY Computing? |
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Sgt.Joe
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A quote from SgtJoE ''... a company can patent a gene.?!?!?!?! [sic]They should be able to patent a test for a gene, but not the gene itself because it occurred naturally. Now if it was a gene which did not exist in nature, but they "invented" a new gene, then that maybe should be patentable. Jonas Salk did not patent his polio vaccine, but made it available to the world.'' But even a single Co, charging big test fees to detect breast cancer is obscene! At least with a test, there remains competition. There is more than one way to run test and someone can invent a different way to do it. Then with competition there is no monopoly power. With no monopoly power there is little pricing power. The price for detecting the presence of these genes (BRCA1 and BRCA2) should plummet. Companies are entitled to a fair return for their research, but not a return which gouges the consumer. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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alged
Master Cruncher FRANCE Joined: Jun 12, 2009 Post Count: 2369 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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What is the interest of Big Pharma ?
----------------------------------------Clear in there: http://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/view/9366...des-farmaceuticas-roberts the recent comments of Richard J.Roberts 90pc of research money is aimed to only 10pc of world populaton The more interesting and already curing remedies in cancer have been made by Cuba : the CIMAVAX-EGF and RACOTUMOMAB http://outremerlemag.fr/index.php/societe/738...pour-combattre-la-maladie MONEY MONEY MONEY ps: sorry for that both links to reviews in spanish and french may be somebody get the comments of Richard J.Roberts in english ?  |
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