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Volume 16 Issue 1-2

Volume 16 Issue 1-2
20 Years of CRG
Jan-Feb 2003

Can Genetics Provide Better Treatment for Breast Cancer?
By Sujatha Byravan

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Race and Genetics

For centuries, human societies have divided population groups into separate races. While there is no scientific basis for this, people unquestioningly accept these classifications as fact.

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Gene Patents

Rapid developments in biotechnology over the last two decades have enabled corporations and scientists to alter nature's handiwork for commercial profit. The patent, a tool originally created to insure that inventors could share in the financial returns and benefits deriving from the use of their nventions, has become the primary mechanism through which the private sector advances its claims to ownership over genes, proteins, and entire organisms.

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