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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 day ago (18 children)

It isn't yours, if you use them you signed it all over to them. They patented your DNA.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

That’s not true in the slightest. I agree with the fuck 23&me sentiment but you don’t have to make things up to criticize them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc, that human genes cannot be patented because DNA is a “product of nature.” All gene patents were invalidated with this ruling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

OK if nobody's going to bother reading beyond that I give up. Be ignorant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Maybe you can cite the exact statement we’re all missing. You can’t because the trouble you’re running into is that we did read it, and it seems perhaps you did not, but you can’t try. Summary: can’t patent unmanipulated genes. Can patent manipulated genes and sequencing processes.

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