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Can a company patent your DNA? Supreme Court hears BRCA gene case
Can a private company own rights to your DNA? The nine justices of the Supreme Court will consider that question Monday as lawyers for Myriad Genetics make their best case that the company should be able to keep its patent on two genes known to...
Tags: Judges, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Breast Cancer, Medical Specialization, Medical Research
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Supreme Court critical of patents on human genes
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices said Monday they were highly skeptical of the idea that a company or a scientist can hold a patent on human genes and prevent others from testing or using them. “What about the first person who found a...
Tags: Judges, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Breast Cancer, Medical Specialization, Science and Technology
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Supreme Court seems opposed to granting patents on human genes
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court took up a deceptively simple question in a case brought by breast cancer patients and medical researchers: Are human genes patentable? The answer appeared to be "no" during Monday's oral arguments. The justices...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Elena Kagan, John G. Roberts, Jr., Sports, Crime, Law and Justice
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Civil War sailors laid to rest, 151 years later
Eleven years ago, Navy Capt. Barbara "Bobbie" Scholley dived more than 230 feet into the ocean to help bring back the past: two sailors killed when their Civil War battleship sank in 1862. On Friday, the Annapolis woman joined the crew members'...
Tags: Archaeology, USS Monitor, Hampton Roads, Arts and Culture, Science and Technology
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Poland finds horse meat DNA in beef samples
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - One of Poland's top veterinarians said on Feb. 28 that traces of horse-meat DNA have been found in beef samples taken from three meat processors - the first acknowledgement that the country could be a source of the horse meat that...Tags: Chemical Industry
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Man charged with raping teenage girl at Tustin park
L.A. NOWChase Jeffrey White has been charged with one felony count of rape in concert, and could face a maximum of nine years in state prison and have to face lifetime sex offender registration, if convicted, according to a joint statement from the Orange... -
Senate votes to repeal death penalty
The Maryland Senate voted Wednesday to make Maryland the 18th state to abolish the death penalty, putting Gov. Martin O'Malley one step closer to a significant legislative victory. The 27-20 vote sent the bill to the House of Delegates, where repeal...
Tags: Republican Party, Martin O'Malley, Calvert County, E.J. Pipkin, Politics
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Facebook is about to redesign News Feed: Here's what to expect
SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook is rolling out a radical new redesign of News Feed, the biggest since it launched the feature in 2006. The giant social network plans to unveil the redesign at a press conference Thursday at its Menlo Park, Calif.,...
Tags: Media Industry, Social Media, Corporate Officers, Science and Technology, Advertising
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Old dog bones teach scientists new trick
It hardly needs to be said that there's a long evolutionary distance between Banana Joe and wolves. The Affenpinscher that took best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in February is at least 16,000 years removed from the days of roaming...Tags: Science and Technology, Chemical Industry, Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
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Now in Lehigh Valley, Avantor hopes to grow into billion-dollar business
Two years ago Avantor Performance Materials was headquartered in the aging New Jersey building it had occupied for half a century, with some of its people working in office trailers and others at a remote site miles away. Today, relocated to Upper...
Tags: Social Sciences, Politics, Global Expansion, Salt, Culture
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Lawmakers will push for DNA collection changes
The Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland is pushing legislation to close what it describes as loopholes in state law that allow police to keep DNA samples from people never convicted of crimes. Del. Jill P. Carter, a Baltimore Democrat, said Friday she...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Martin O'Malley, Judges, Politics, Science and Technology
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Man arrested in connection with slaying of San Bernardino woman
The investigation into the slayings of three women in San Bernardino, all elderly and attacked while alone in their homes, caught its first major break, police said Monday. A neighborhood handyman was arrested in connection with the violent, home-...Tags: Sex Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Police Arrests, Crimes, Murder
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