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...contrast, the large infusions of private capital over the past two years support companies that aim to find and patent key DNA sequences before they become publicly available. Not surprisingly, the leaders of these companies have implied that those of us who started the project were no longer needed. To our vast relief, the publicly supported effort received not less but more money. Our backers want to ensure that all the essential features of the human genome are available without cost to all the people of the world. The events of the past few weeks have shown that those...
...June 1991 he had increased the number of identified genes by 347, up from 2,000. His bosses at NIH were so pleased that they rushed to patent them, only to set off a firestorm. Watson, then head of NIH's part of the Human Genome Project (another part is under the Department of Energy), denounced the move as "sheer lunacy" that would cause paralyzing legal battles. When the dust settled, NIH had withdrawn its patent proposal, Watson had quit the genome project, and Venter and Fraser, a former graduate student at Buffalo whom he had married after splitting with...
...ecstasy pill most probably won't kill you or cure you. It is also unlike pretty much every other illicit drug. Ecstasy pills are (or at least they are supposed to be) made of a compound called methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA. It's an old drug: Germany issued the patent for it in 1914 to the German company E. Merck. Contrary to ecstasy lore, and there's tons of it, Merck wasn't trying to develop a diet drug when it synthesized MDMA. Instead, its chemists simply thought it could be a promising intermediary substance that might be used to help...
...Mills says he believes Park, who is the paid spokesperson of American Physical Society (APS), protested his patent as part of an ongoing campaign "to protect the agenda of 'Big Science'"--his term for the group of scientists that receives government research grants...
...recent patent woes have not slowed the research at BlackLight headquarters, a 53,000-square-foot former Lockheed Martin airplane hangar in New Jersey, which Mills describes as "state of the art" and values at over $15 million...