Can Corporations Own Your DNA?

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 20:21 in Biology & Nature

Private companies hold the patent rights to some of the genes in your body. The companies say the patents help them develop new treatments. But a group of cancer patients and the ACLU ahve sued, saying companies can't own body parts.

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