The biotech industry has been built on three decades of gene patenting, so it was thrown for a loop a year ago when a federal judge ruled that DNA isolated from the body were “products of nature” and therefore could not be patented. On July 29 a federal appeals court overturned that ruling against Myriad… Continue Reading
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Could seaweed be the ideal biofuel source?
Posted on from MoFo Tech Fall/Winter 2011For decades, biofuel companies have turned to food crops, especially corn, to make the bioethanol that is added to gasoline to power trucks and cars. But the resulting price pressures on food, coupled with the large tracts of land needed to produce the fuel in a meaningful way, has led to a hunt for next-generation… Continue Reading