Tag: genes
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Monsanto, free genes, lucky crops.
In a unanimous decision today, the U.S. Supreme Court backed the agribusiness firm Monsanto on its soybean patents. The justices concluded that an Indiana farmer, Vernon Hugh Bowman, violated the company’s intellectual property rights when he refused to pay royalties on unlabeled soybeans he bought that contained genes patented by the company. The court ruled…
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Angelina Jolie, gene terrorism, stupidity. (and some advertisement)
Angelina Jolie, known for being fiercely private, has made a very personal disclosure. The Oscar-winning (REALLY?!?) actress reveals in an emotional op-ed for the New York Times that she underwent a double mastectomy earlier this year after a blood test showed she was genetically susceptible to cancer. “The truth is I carry a ‘faulty’ gene, BRCA1,…
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Evil Sweden strikes back… (or: How to sterilize “inferior” people)
Sweden had (from 1920s to 1970s) the best eugenics program in the world (i.e. compulsory sterilization of metally diseased, inferior and/ or “impure” citizens et cetera). They even “taught” Hitler, who actually asked for a copy of their eugenics law for his Reich… Even though many other states had similar eugenica programs (including USA, Switzerland,…
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Genome patents, Stupidity patents?
The US Supreme Court has heard arguments questioning whether the human genome can be claimed as intellectual property. The case relates to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2009, and centres on whether companies should be able to patent genes. US authorities have been awarding patents on genes to universities and medical companies…
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Evolution of the Theory of Evolution: 0
How much have we misunderstood the Evolution of Species, the notion of Biodiversity and Nature in general… We believe that diversity in nature is automatically created via evolution. But at the same time the UK government has announced that five species of invasive non-native aquatic plants are to be banned from sale in an effort…
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