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Letter: Permission to breed

Published 16 November 2005

From Jim Kajpust

One of your “60 Seconds” items reports that private companies in the US have patented nearly 20 per cent of all human genes (22 October, p 7). Does this mean if my wife and I have children, we need to get a patent licence for copying our genes?

Saginaw, Michigan, US

Issue no. 2526 published 19 November 2005

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