Buoyed by enabling legislation and scientific advances, institutions are aggressively shopping their faculties' `blue-sky' investigations. In just the past year, patents on the genes implicated in ...

The Supreme Court’s eventual ruling on the patenting of human genes will have far reaching consequences for the future of health care delivery, Professor Robert Field said during a discussion on March ...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court seemed worried Monday about the idea of companies patenting human genes in a case that could profoundly reshape the multibillion-dollar biomedical industry and U.S.

Last month, my colleague Shane Climie wrote a post inspired by an article in the New York Times (“How Bright Promise in Cancer Testing Fell Apart”), which exposed disturbing and cautionary insights ...

Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about healthcare. Who owns DNA? Last year, in a case involving Myriad Genetics — which holds patents on two human genes used as ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday set aside a ruling that said Myriad Genetics Inc could patent two genes linked to breast and ovarian cancers, and ordered further review by a ...

To be patent-eligible, apart from being novel, non-obvious and industrially applicable, patent laws require that an invention must not fall within the list of subject matter specifically excluded from ...

Craig Venter is back in the news. The entrepreneurial geneticist recently announced he has created a new form of synthetic life. The new microbe, which thrives and replicates with only a man-made ...