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[Dan TheBookMan]

On Aug 18, 2016, at 7:06 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> What if the persons whose skin cells are used are dead?  I can see where this is going - Olympic champions, Nobel prize winners, etc. will be essentially cloned.  Could this lead to patents on DNA?

In the US, federal law would have to be changed to abrogate the 02013 SCOTUS decision on this very issue:

http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/06/gene-patent-decision-in-plain-english/

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Dan
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