Small and medium-sized breeders and farmers have no chance to navigate the complex and growing web of patents on plants and ...

Amyris has patented a method for genetically engineering Kluyveromyces to produce and secrete antibodies. The method involves modifying the host cell genome, reducing NHEJ activity, and integrating ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook As I reach the end of my time here at the University, more and more of my classes as an engineer ...

Can you patent a human gene? Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi of our Planet Money team has the story of how this question wound up at the U.S. Supreme Court and how it raised an even more fundamental question - ...

The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in Assoc. for Mol. Pathology v. USPTO (2010-1406) (informally referred to as the Myriad decision), provides some clarity to entrepreneurs and scientists working ...

Should companies be able to patent human genes? For decades, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said yes, ultimately granting patents on thousands of genes. Two of the genes that were patented are ...

The patents on the BRCA genes are particularly broad and offensive. The PTO has granted Myriad Genetics, a private biotechnology company based in Utah, patents on both the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic ...

Not so long ago, if you asked someone about the US Patent and Trademark Office’s practice of granting patents on human genes, you’d probably get one of two responses. Biotechnology insiders would ...

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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Epic Bio, a biotechnology company developing ultracompact therapies to modulate gene expression in vivo, today announced its launch and Series A financing ...