Myriad Genetics settles with BRCA test competitors
Myriad Genetics has settled litigation with competitors who had been using genetic testing for breast cancer genes...
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European Court rules parthenotes fall outside human embryo patent ban
The European Court of Justice (CJEU) has cleared the way for the patenting of human parthenotes for industrial and commercial purposes, clarifying the definition of 'human embryo' excluded from patentability in European Law...
Book Review: Gene Jockeys - Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise
'Everybody has the same damn list.' It was with these words that Peter Farley, one time president of the biotechnology firm, Cetus, described the early days of commercial molecular biology. This race to clone, express and commercialise human genes is the focus of Nicolas Rasmussen's book...
Consortium to map SNPs for clinical application
An unprecedented consortium of ten global pharmaceutical companies, the UK's Wellcome Trust, and five research institutes will pool their resources to draw up a $45m (£30m) map of the variations in the human genetic code, or single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). This alliance, called the SNP Consortium, also announced last week that...