Word: preventing
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...only can such filings be sloppy genetics, they can also be bad business. est applications may lead to so-called submarine patents, claims that are made today and then vanish, only to reappear when some unsuspecting scientist finds something useful to do with genes hidden in the patent. To prevent this, Lehman requires that est applications include no more than 10 genetic sequences. Each 10 after that requires a separate application--and a separate filing fee. "Companies will now have an incentive to file more selective applications," says Lehman...
...cleared. English officials investigating a crime in a small town sometimes perform mass screenings in which thousands of people are asked to surrender a mouth swab full of DNA. The law gives anyone the right to decline, but as residents of Lawrence, Mass., are learning, no law can prevent the slit-eyed look police give a person who actually chooses to exercise that right. "There is no such thing as a technology like this without an ideology of surveillance and control behind it," says Bereano...
...parents choose genetic traits, whether by selective abortion, selective reimplanting of eggs fertilized in vitro or--in perhaps just a few years--injecting genes into fertilized eggs. In Huxley's day eugenics happened only by government mandate; now it will take government mandate--a ban on genetic tinkering--to prevent...
...parents might place on the substitute, right? If a baby dies within a few days of birth and there is no reason to think that death was caused by an inherited defect, would it then be acceptable to make a copy? Is it practical to frame legislation that would prevent copying of adults or older children, but allow copying of infants? At what age would a child be too old to be copied in the event of death...
...Development. "Then they ran into technical hurdles, and the pendulum swung the other way." Now, says Krieg, a few anti-sense compounds are starting to show promise. Among them is a drug called Vitravene, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in August and is used to prevent blindness in AIDS patients infected with cytomegalovirus...