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Article: All rights reserved: how the gene-patenting race is affecting science. (Cover Story)
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- Science News
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- September 4, 1993
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Since the National Institutes of Health first filed for patients on thousands of fragments of human genes in 1992, a sense of unease has permeated much of the international community of human geneticists. Perhaps it is just the disquiet that comes with sudden change and its unknown consequences - unrest that will dissipate as they work through ethical and legal questions now entwined with their research.
But many researchers are waving red flags. They are confronting difficult problems arising at the complex intersection of science, private enterprise, and the law.
C. Thomas Caskey, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute geneticist at the Baylor College of ...