Enlarge this image According to the law in most states, health care providers own patients’ medical records. But federal privacy law governs…
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Did Pox Virus Research Put Potential Profits Ahead of Public Safety?
by Nell Greenfieldboyce February 17, 2018Enlarge this image Smallpox virus, colorized and magnified in this micrograph 42,000 times, is the real concern for biologists working on a…
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Enlarge this image Biotechnologist Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute (a joint venture of MIT and Harvard University) was awarded a patent…
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Scientists Battle In Court Over Lucrative Patents For Gene-Editing Tool
by NPR December 5, 2016Enlarge this image Emmanuelle Charpentier (left) and Jennifer Doudna have a case for being the inventors of CRISPR-cas9, a transformative tool for…