Ronald Bailey reports on prominent Luddite Jeremy Rifkin’s attempt to hijack the patent system as a staging ground for litigation against biotech projects he disapproves of — including the efforts of a Nevada professor to save lives by using sheep embryos to generate human liver cells for eventual patient-specific transplants. So far the Patent Office is resisting the efforts. (”Shimmering Chimeras”, ReasonOnline, Dec. 24).
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