Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a fatal neuromuscular disorder affecting around one in
3,500–5,000 male births that is characterized by progressive muscular deterioration. It is …

Context: With the development of transformative drugs at a low point, numerous
commentators have recommended new legislation that uses supplementary market …

In the past 15–20 years, there has been increasing interest throughout the world in studies
involving plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) and their positive interactions with plants …

Every year a different Italian city hosts a large and important hackmeeting. In 2007 hackers
were gathering in Pisa at the Rebeldia social centre: the centre's rooms were filled with …

From the late 1980s, a storm surrounding the wisdom, ethics, and economics of human gene
patents has been brewing. The various winds of concern in this storm touched on the impact …

It is just over two decades since a small start-up firm called University Diagnostics launched
a mail-order genetic testing service in the UK in 1996. That same year, the US-based …

It is commonly asserted that innovation markets suffer from excessive intellectual property
protections, which in turn stifle output. But empirical inquiries can neither confirm nor deny …

Patents versus patenting: implications of intellectual property protection for biological research |
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Genomics and human genetics are scientifically fundamental and commercially valuable.
These fields grew to prominence in an era of growth in government and nonprofit research …

In this article I address the interactions between biological knowledge and ideas about the
kinds of entity that are suited to appropriation. I start by arguing that commodification and …