La Cour Suprême des USA valide que le génome humain n'est pas brevetable ...

Merci Oliv pour le lien

No comment ... (par contre les séquences artificielles, si !), cf

The United States Supreme Court has today (June 13) unanimously ruled that isolated human genes cannot be patented, but the Justices also ruled that synthetic DNA sequences—known as complimentary DNA (cDNA)—are eligible for protection. “A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated,” wrote Justice Clarence Thomas, “but cDNA is patent eligible because it is not naturally occurring.”

Je rappelle que j'ai breveté il y a longtemps la respiration aérobie et que j'attends toujours les royalties ...

Source:

Supreme Court Nixes Patenting Human Genes


the-scientist.com

$$$ vs Santé ... toute une histoire ...

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