{"id":707874,"date":"2010-04-02T15:27:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011509470_36073360463603051674humangenomepatentschallenged.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-02T15:27:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:27:55","slug":"human-genome-patents-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/707874","title":{"rendered":"Human genome patents challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Owning life-forms a brave new world intrusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Striking down these genetic patents is a wise legal decision. [\u201cJudge\u2019s ruling raises challenge to patents on human genome,\u201d Business, March 30.]<\/p>\n<p>Life-forms and their components (plant or animal) should never be owned by private companies. Developing drugs, cures, new strains, seeds, etc., based on knowledge gained from understanding the life-forms is one thing, but to own the life-form itself is an unprecedented brave-new-world intrusion meant to monopolize and subvert that knowledge to the exclusive benefit of a few.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, any appeals will fail and any existing patents on life-forms proactively rescinded.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 David Kerchner, Kirkland<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owning life-forms a brave new world intrusion Striking down these genetic patents is a wise legal decision. [\u201cJudge\u2019s ruling raises challenge to patents on human genome,\u201d Business, March 30.] Life-forms and their components (plant or animal) should never be owned by private companies. Developing drugs, cures, new strains, seeds, etc., based on knowledge gained from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1735,"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-707874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Y9k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707874","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\/1735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}