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wabasso@lemmy.ca 2 days agoCurious if you’re thinking of any cases where we’d need a safeguard for any parts of the body other than the brain? Like would a whole human minus the brain be OK?
I guess there’s the whole identity theft and impersonation side of things.
Narauko@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The main concerns I see are if it is actually only individual organs, and things like your rights to your own genetic code/cell lines.
wabasso@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Yeah but can you give more details? Like what’s an example of something bad happening if it’s more than individual organs, like your entire body minus your head for example.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 days ago
I could easily see some corporation buying someone’s intellectual property rights to their genetic code. I do recall a Supreme Court case where a company patented DNA.
Narauko@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Exactly what I am talking about along with the immortalized cell lines stolen from minorities. I have no problems with people donating themselves to science or being appropriately compensated with thoroughly informed consent, the advances to science are critical. I just don’t want the biomedical equivalent of OpenAI stealing IP happening to make the 0.1% even richer.