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).
Patents and stem cell research
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 […]
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