20% of Human DNA as now been patented under US law.

international | consumer issues | other press Friday October 14, 2005 18:46 by human interest - (weekend reading)

As hard as it may be to believe, 20% of the Human Genome has now been declared the intellectual or chemical property of researchers, biotech companies and universities mostly in the USA.

At what stage will you need permission to :-
a) breed.
b) mutate.
c) evolve.

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