"Who Owns Your Genes?" Event Illuminates Arguments For and Against DNA Patenting


 

Publication Date: January 2007

Publisher: American Bar Association. Section of Science and Technology. Biotechnology Law Committee

Author(s): Shawna Williams

Research Area: Health; Law and ethics

Keywords: DNA patenting; Genetics

Type: Other

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Patenting human genes is a "massive social experiment," Robert Cook-Deegan declared early in a July 10, 2007 seminar on DNA patenting. The diversity of views at that event indicate there's no consensus on how that experiment will turn out, or on whether it should be conducted at all.

In Biotech Briefing, 2007, p.3-6.