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My Review of Luigi Palombi's book, Gene Cartels
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| It is a shame that there are so few existing
| copies of Luigi Palombiâs Gene Cartels. The
| initial press run for this remarkable book was
| apparently less than 1000, yet this is a book
| that every policy maker even remotely
| connected to issues of patents, economics, and
| biotech should read.
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| Palombiâs background is in law. He worked for
| years as a patent lawyer, writing and arguing
| for biotech patents. Over time, he grew
| disenchanted with the scope and reach of
| patents being granted on biotechnology
| âinnovationsâ, especially as more and more
| patents began to be granted further
| âupstreamâ, over things that were not
| inventions, but rather discoveries. He is now
| a researcher with the Regulatory Institutions
| Network at the Australian National University.
| He devotes his research and activism to
| eliminating âgene patentsâ and his magnum opus
| on the legal case against gene patents works
| methodically through not just recent law on
| the subject but the history of patent law
| itself.
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http://whoownsyou-drkoepsell.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-review-of-luigi-palombis-book-gene.html
Recent:
Lab to be first 'open-source' for genetic parts
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| Bioengineers from Stanford and UC-Berkeley
| are ramping up efforts to characterize
| thousands of molecular players and processes
| critical to the engineering of microbes.
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| With seed money from the National Science
| Foundation, bioengineers from Stanford and
| UC-Berkeley, are ramping up efforts to
| characterize thousands of molecular players
| and processes critical to the engineering of
| microbes, so that eventually researchers can
| mix and match these âDNA partsâ in synthetic
| organisms to produce new drugs, fuels or
| chemicals. Theyâll do this in a lab in
| Emeryville, Calif., called BIOFAB.
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http://www.physorg.com/wire-news/25889659/lab-to-be-first-open-source-for-genetic-parts.html
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