Snaring the Wealth: Can Negotiators Reach a Uniform Position on Patenting the World's Genetic Resources?
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 12:01
in Biology & Nature
High in the Cederberg Mountains of South Africa grows a bristly shrub that embodies the tug-of-war taking place between industrialized and developing nations over the value of genetic resources--the genes found in plant, animal or microbial cells used for research as well as in commercial products, such as enhanced seeds and naturally derived cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. [More]