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Originally Posted by tommymac
I think its like when a drug company has a patent on a drug thye set the price for it. If biotech firm can patent a speciffic gene that causes cancer then they can set the market price for tests/tumor markers they may develop and any future treatments.
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They did not create the gene. Darwin did.
If they want to realize profits from their discovery, then they need to invent a drug or treatment that can be patented. Patenting the gene makes no sense. That is like patenting neurons or mitochondria.