{"id":704839,"date":"2010-03-30T13:37:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T17:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003895"},"modified":"2010-03-30T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T17:38:12","slug":"judge-says-you-cant-patent-human-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/704839","title":{"rendered":"Judge Says You Can&#8217;t Patent Human Genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/033010-002-labcoats-thumb-300x160-38737.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>A judge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/30\/business\/30gene.html\">just invalidated the patents<\/a> on two human genes whose mutations have been linked to breast and ovarian cancer. The genes were isolated by a biotech firm called Myriad Genetics, which argued that because it figured out how to isolate the genes outside of the human body then they were patentable. The judge called that &#8220;a &#8216;lawyer&#8217;s trick&#8217; that circumvents the prohibition on the direct patenting of the DNA in our bodies.&#8221; The company sells a $3,000 cancer screening kit and has maintained a monopoly on the test because of the patents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/30\/business\/30gene.html\">&#8220;Judge Invalidates Human Gene Patent&#8221;<\/a> [New York Times]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge just invalidated the patents on two human genes whose mutations have been linked to breast and ovarian cancer. The genes were isolated by a biotech firm called Myriad Genetics, which argued that because it figured out how to isolate the genes outside of the human body then they were patentable. The judge called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Xmn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}