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GPL for Artificial Life?
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| The Economist is right on top of the story
| of the first fully synthetic life-form.
| For those of you who may have missed the
| announcement last week, Craig Venter and
| Hamilton Smith, the two American
| biologists who unravelled the first DNA
| sequence of a living organism (a
| bacterium) in 1995, have pushed the
| envelope again, demonstrating the first
| successful boot-up of a synthetic
| bacterium. Editors at the Economist argue
| that the only sensible way to protect
| ourselves from such creations is to
| require that the DNA sequences be open
| source. It is a profound insight.
|
| [...]
|
| But now he's back, and he's built the one
| thing that sits as an exception to the
| Gene Patent exclusions: a wholly synthetic
| lifeform. Does Ventner really want to
| advance science (which he has done), or is
| he searching, like Charles Muntz, villain
| of the PIXAR movie UP, for his ultimate,
| exclusive patent on life?
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http://opensource.com/business/10/5/gpl-articifial-life
Fund raising for feature documentary - Who Owns You?
http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000003015
Legal challenge between Palo Alto company, Orange County hospital halts stem cell research
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| When a child dies of brain disease at
| Children's Hospital of Orange County,
| Philip H. Schwartz meets with the parents,
| explains his research and asks them to
| donate their child's brain to his quest
| for a cure.
|
| "These are not easy conversations to
| have," he said. "There are expectations by
| parents that if they allow us to do that
| to their child, it will serve a useful
| purpose."
|
| But for three years, the cells derived
| from many of those children's brains have
| been suspended in limbo, frozen in Thermos
| bottles. The nonprofit Southern California
| hospital has shut down the research,
| intimidated by a patent claim from the
| Palo Alto biotech company StemCells. The
| company's co-founder is esteemed Stanford
| stem cell scientist Dr. Irving Weissman,
| one of the world's most passionate
| advocates for giving scientists access to
| a field entangled by politics, ethics â
| and now money.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15139305?nclick_check=1&forced=true
Stem Cell Patent Halts Hospital's Collection
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05/24/171220/Stem-Cell-Patent-Halts-Hospitals-Collection
SCOTUS SPEAKS
http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/05/24/scotus-speaks/
Tomorrow
http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/05/23/tomorrow/
IBM's Patent-Pending Traffic Lights Stop Car Engines
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/05/23/1447219/IBMs-Patent-Pending-Traffic-Lights-Stop-Car-Engines
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE ENGINE RUNNING STATE AT BUSY INTERSECTIONS FOR INCREASED FUEL CONSUMPTION EFFICIENCY
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220100125402%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20100125402&RS=DN/20100125402
Recent:
AP INVESTIGATION: Monsanto seed biz role revealed
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| Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto
| Co.'s business practices reveal how the
| world's biggest seed developer is
| squeezing competitors, controlling smaller
| seed companies and protecting its
| dominance over the multibillion-dollar
| market for genetically altered crops, an
| Associated Press investigation has found.
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http://www.ajc.com/business/ap-investigation-monsanto-seed-240072.html
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