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...cloning--gently squeezing the nucleus out of a donor egg rather than sucking it out violently and inserting the entire adult cell, not just its nucleus, into the hollowed-out recipient egg. Hwang insisted he had no interest in profiting from his discoveries; indeed, he turned over his patent rights to the university and the government...
...playing out in the Korean press. Several days after Schatten?s initial break with Hwang, Seoul?s news outlets cited a Korean government official and other sources in both Korea and the U.S., claiming that Schatten had met with Hwang in October and asked for 50% of the patent on the patient-specific stem cell cloning technique. Schatten also reportedly asked to be named chairman of the board of the newly created World Stem Cell Hub, a research center funded jointly by the South Korean government and private interests. The South Koreans reportedly denied his requests...
...their careers. “Today the message from Washington is that these people should go home,” said Smith. He added that immigration laws have been tightened and “the shortage of visas is striking.” According to Smith, the current outdated patent system is also thwarting growth. In recent years the number of patent applications has tripled, and “we run a big risk of quality being harmed by the increase in quantity,” he said. Colin Maclay, managing director at the Berkman Center, added in an interview...
...General Foods research-and-development staff member whose carefully planned recipe made Stove Top stuffing a best-selling comfort to harried mothers everywhere; of a heart attack; in Newburgh, Ind. Knowing that bread-crumb size held the key to liquid absorption--and thus "proper texture and mouthfeel," as the patent stated--she determined the precise dimensions of the ideal crumb--about those of a pencil eraser. Now part of Kraft, Stove Top sells some 60 million boxes every Thanksgiving...
...Health Minister Siti Fadila Supari announced that Indonesia had been granted a license to produce Tamiflu, the best-known treatment for bird flu. Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche approved requests to domestically produce and distribute the medication in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, where the anti-viral drug is not patent protected...