Recently, a Judge ruled that a gene patent on breast cancer genes was invalid. I thought I would share this because it seems to be a step in the right direction to me. I never understood how a gene could be patented since it is discovered, not created. I understand that it can take a lot of resources to discover these types of things, but overall I think it hinders scientific progress when people have to worry about patents when researching certain areas of the genome. I hope this leads to a lot of the other gene patents being revoked. Thoughts?
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