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August 16, 2002


Pharmaceutical company lawyers

Read this story from Lagniappe (barf bag not included) - Great Moments in Legal Reasoning. No commentary here - just read the link.

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I do hope this will be allowed to stop some patents (depending, always depending) on the human genome. I don't want my family to have to pay a licensing fee because their kids will have the some hair color as can be supplied with a gene-altering drug.

On 'tother hand, I don't want a drug that could stop Taynes-Sachs (spelling?) and allow carriers to have normal children.

Posted by: John Anderson on August 17, 2002 10:25 PM






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