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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

They patented your DNA.

You can’t patent DNA… They can sell it though, with a simple TOS update (if they even need to).

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db2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
geneticspolicy.nccrcg.org/…/gene-patents/

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- sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  However, on June 13, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc, that human genes cannot be patented because DNA is a “product of nature.” All gene patents were invalidated with this ruling. However, the ruling did not prohibit the patenting of DNA that is manipulated (i.e., no longer a product of nature) or processes for identifying DNA sequences.
  
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  - slickgoat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    So if a lab rat adds, deletes or edits a person’s DNA it is no longer a ‘product of nature’?
    
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    sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Apparently.
    
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- eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  […] human genes cannot be patented because DNA is a “product of nature.” All gene patents were invalidated with this ruling.
  
  did you paste the link so admit you were wrong?
  
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  - db2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Did you stop reading before you should have?
    
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