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...proposed legislation could significantly affect a patent granted to Andrus Professor of Genetics Philip Leder '56, who was at the center of a national controversy this spring after Harvard received the exclusive marketing rights for the genetically-altered strain of mice he created to do cancer research. It was the first animal patent...
WITHOUT a word of public debate, Dr. Philip Leder '56, a Harvard geneticist, was granted a patent earlier this month for his engineered mouse. This marked the first time an animal was classified as an invention. Designed to be susceptible to cancer, the mouse will allow researchers to better understand the causes of that disease in humans...
...Harvard mouse is certainly not the sort of creature that Dr. Frankenstein would have created. In 1982 Harvard Medical School Geneticists Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart developed a technique for producing mice that were highly susceptible to breast cancer; they modified a naturally occurring gene to make the mice more sensitive to cancer-causing agents, then injected the altered DNA into the embryos. By subjecting the adult mice to carcinogens and studying the malignancies that develop, scientists will have a unique opportunity to analyze the complex interplay between environmental and hereditary origins of cancer -- and possibly even produce more sensitive...
...patent office last week granted exclusive marketing rights to Harvard for a genetically altered strain of mice designed by Andrus Professor of Genetics Philip Leder '56. Although the new breed of mice was created for cancer research, the patent office's decision has come under attack by some members of Congress, who charge it has preempted congressional debate on the ethics of patenting animals...
...Leder last week defended the patent office's approval of his mouse patent, saying that such licenses are needed to give industry incentive to sponsor scientific research...