A Funny Take on Patenting Genes
As you may have already noticed, I’m not particularly good at humor writing. Fortunately, other writers like Wolfram Donat aren’t too bad at it. He writes about gene patents in the American Chronicle:
If I should happen to mix up one G-T-A-C chain, though, Im breaking U.S. patent laws and am vulnerable to a lawsuit. And its not new, either. The first gene patents were obtained around 1978, so Ive been using someone elses intellectual property for a while now. I really hope I didnt break anything - there are a few episodes in college that I really cant remember, and breaking a genetic coding series is just the sort of thing I might have done accidentally.
Obviously, I’ve spliced and diced the genetic code many times in the lab. Don’t think anyone’s coming after me…yet.
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