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...anatomist to spot, say, the pancreas was not granted title to it, why should modern genome-mapping scientists be able to claim even a single gene? As Kahn points out, "You could patent a system for mining gold from ore. We don't let people patent the gold." That kind of argument is grounded not in law but in the very idea of what it means to be human--an issue that even the highest federal court is not likely to settle...
Chief Justice William Rehnquist has the kind of face that gets lost in a crowd, and that's the way he likes it. For years he has blocked broadcasting the work of the Supreme Court. But this week the professorial 74-year-old will cross the narrow street that separates his courthouse from the Capitol to become, at least for a while, the most televised person in America, the one in charge of President Clinton's trial in the Senate...
...This kind of investigatory yin and yang is keeping opponents of DNA fingerprinting mollified--but for how long? Now that the gene genie is out of the bottle, there may be little that can be done to stuff it back in. Scientists in the U.S. and England already speak dreamily of moving beyond testing STRs alone, expanding their work to sample other--more richly encoded--areas of the genome. Kevin Sullivan of England's Forensic Science Service predicts that within a decade researchers may be able to use DNA analysis to draw a sort of genetic police sketch...
...crimes they haven't yet committed but are genetically predisposed to commit? Is it possible to fix such miswired genes, and if so, should you try? The possibility of mucking about with such fundamental genetic coding gives a lot of people existential shivers--and it should. "This is the kind of technology that would flourish in an Orwellian society," says Bereano...
...vast majority of other trials, scientists are hard at work developing a new generation of viral vectors. One promising candidate, says Pennsylvania's Wilson, is the AAV (adeno-associated virus), a small, benign human virus that does not seem to cause any disease. "It doesn't elicit the same kind of inflammatory response that the other vectors do," Wilson explains. "It's somehow evolved the way to get around that." The AAV also efficiently insinuates itself into nondividing cells and, in tests with monkeys and mice, has enabled the therapeutic gene engineered into it to express itself for more than...