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Hopefully the US supreme court will make a sensible decision and declare that genes… 1

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Hopefully the US supreme court will make a sensible decision and declare that genes cannot be patented. While I'm increasingly opposed to patents in general if we are going to give them out for anything related to genes it should be limited to mechanisms for detecting genes not the genes themselves

US Supreme Court to decide whether human genes are patentable

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/30/3712896/united-states-supreme-court-myriad-genetics-patent

US Supreme Court to decide whether human genes are patentable
The United States Supreme Court will be taking another look at a previous ruling that granted Myriad Genetics, Inc. patents on two gene mutations that are tied to hereditary breast and ovarian…

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The 2000 Concorde crash in France was a lot more complicated than we knew

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The 2000 Concorde crash in France was a lot more complicated than we knew

A French appellate court this week overturned a manslaughter conviction against Continental Airlines and one of its mechanics in the case of the 2000 Concorde crash. While reports at the time almost exclusively blamed a tire that blew out after running over a strip of metal on the runway, it appears that there was a cascading series of human errors that ultimately resulted in the crash. There was plenty of blame to go around and this article is definitely worth a read.

THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE CONCORDE DISASTER
November 29, 2012. A FRENCH APPEALS COURT TODAY overturned a manslaughter conviction against Continental Airlines for its role in the crash of an Air France Concorde outside Paris twelve years ago. Fl…


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