Congress Wants to Give Companies the Right to Own Our Genes

by Lori Andrews Six years ago, on June 13, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court in AMP v. Myriad took a great step forward for women’s health by unanimously ruling that human genes could not be patented. Now a bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives have released a bill that would allow companies to own our genes once again. Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution provides that any patent system must “promote progress in science and the useful arts.” But patents on genes do not promote the … More The post Congress Wants to Give Companies the Right to Own Our Genes appeared first on Our Bodies Ourselves.

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