While I am totally a proponent of marriage equality, this less talked about case is actually far more important
This week the US Supreme Court heard arguments in a case involving the patenting of human genes. There is absolutely no way anyone should be allowed to ever get a patent on the instructions for growing a human or any other organism. At best (or worst depending on your perspective), patents could be granted on specific methods of detection, but never the genes themselves.
This week, the Supreme Court held arguments in an unusual case: whether a company named Myriad can patent a piece of DNA. The company says it spent $500 million and 17 years studying a pair of…