Patenting Of Human Genes And Living Organisms

Author : Friedrich Vogel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642851533
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patenting of Human Genes and Living Organisms written by Friedrich Vogel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biotechnology is one of the most promising fields of technology, especially since molecular biology methods have enhanced our knowledge of genes, their structure, and their action. This knowledge makes it possible to change genetic material and construct new varieties of cultural plants and animals for various purposes such as nutrition, scientific and medical experimentation, and treatment of human diseases. Such inventions may even include human genes. The understandable desire to have legal protection in this domain has created new problems - especially from the viewpoint of the law and acquiring patents for these new inventions. These problems are under wide discussion and are often controversial. This volume provides a unique overview of the current problems and opinions in this controversial field.

Author : Friedrich Vogel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783642851544
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patenting of Human Genes and Living Organisms written by Friedrich Vogel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biotechnology is one of the most promising fields of technology, especially since molecular biology methods have enhanced our knowledge of genes, their structure, and their action. This knowledge makes it possible to change genetic material and construct new varieties of cultural plants and animals for various purposes such as nutrition, scientific and medical experimentation, and treatment of human diseases. Such inventions may even include human genes. The understandable desire to have legal protection in this domain has created new problems - especially from the viewpoint of the law and acquiring patents for these new inventions. These problems are under wide discussion and are often controversial. This volume provides a unique overview of the current problems and opinions in this controversial field.

Author : Friedrich Vogel
Publisher : Springer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9780387581484
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patenting of Human Genes and Living Organisms written by Friedrich Vogel and published by Springer Verlag. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9780333534656
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Patenting Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrea Stazi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784715905
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biotechnological Inventions and Patentability of Life written by Andrea Stazi and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In todayês technological world, biotechnology is one of the most innovative and highly invested-in industries for research, in the field of science. This book analyses the forms and limitations of patent protection recognition for biotechnological inve

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309034345
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetic Engineering of Plants written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1984-02-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book...is, in fact, a short text on the many practical problems...associated with translating the explosion in basic biotechnological research into the next Green Revolution," explains Economic Botany. The book is "a concise and accurate narrative, that also manages to be interesting and personal...a splendid little book." Biotechnology states, "Because of the clarity with which it is written, this thin volume makes a major contribution to improving public understanding of genetic engineering's potential for enlarging the world's food supply...and can be profitably read by practically anyone interested in application of molecular biology to improvement of productivity in agriculture."

Author : Harriet A. Washington
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0767931238
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deadly Monopolies written by Harriet A. Washington and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours. Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes controlling the most basic processes of human life, and more are pending. If you undergo surgery in many hospitals you must sign away ownership rights to your excised tissues, even if they turn out to have medical and fiscal value. Life itself is rapidly becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the medical-industrial complex. Deadly Monopolies is a powerful, disturbing, and deeply researched book that illuminates this “life patent” gold rush and its harmful, and even lethal, consequences for public health. Like the bestselling The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, it reveals in shocking detail just how far the profit motive has encroached in colonizing human life and compromising medical ethics.

Author : Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Patenting DNA written by Nuffield Council on Bioethics and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper questions whether the application of the patent system to DNA sequences achieves its goals of stimulating innovation for the public good and rewarding people for useful new inventions. Even if DNA sequences are considered eligible for patenting, they must also be novel, inventive, and useful. The application of these criteria has not been stringently applied. In future, patents asserting rights over DNA sequences should become the exception rather than the norm.

Author : Hsiao-Chieh Wu
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1581122748
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bio-Technology Development And Patents written by Hsiao-Chieh Wu and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2005-05-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns over potential impediments to biochemical patenting derive from the significance of biotechnology to the future of medicine. From a medical perspective, developments in genetics could hardly be more consequential. (10) The legal revolution referenced above began with a scientific breakthrough--the development in 1972 of recombinant DNA technology. This invention spawned further advancements in genetic research, including the discovery in 1983 of a generally applicable method for cloning genes for polypeptides where the amino acid, DNA, and mRNA sequences were not completely known; the availability beginning in 1986 of computer controlled sequencing machines for the DNA base pairs that form genes; and the development of polymerase chain reaction technology the same year. These advancements have powerfully boosted the ability of scientists to locate and sequence genes. As the president of one major biotechnology company noted, a few decades ago it might have taken ten years to find a particular gene, but, with modern gene maps, a gene can now often be found with a fifteen second computer search. Sequencing has also become far less laborious. The ability of scientists to rapidly sequence DNA has resulted in an explosion of discoveries of DNA sequences--both meaningful and meaningless scientifically--that, in turn, has caused a deluge of patent applications claiming DNA sequences and the proteins and other biochemicals for which these sequences code.

Author : David Koepsell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444360655
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Owns You? written by David Koepsell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Owns You? is a comprehensive exploration of the numerous philosophical and legal problems of gene patenting. Provides the first comprehensive book-length treatment of this subject Develops arguments regarding moral realism, and provides a method of judgment that attempts to be ideologically neutral Calls for public attention and policy changes to end the practice of gene patenting