The CRISPR Patent Fight Has Begun — And It’s Not PrettyMarch 17, 2016 |
Any chance that the ugly patent fight over CRISPR gene editing would end quickly or amicably looks about as likely as President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee sailing through the Senate, according to the first conference call between lawyers from the Broad Institute and the University of California, the two warring institutions
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Tribes’ Win in Fight for La Jolla Bones Clouds Hopes for DNA StudiesJanuary 29, 2016 |
The skeletons were found in San Diego’s La Jolla community in 1976 by an archaeology class digging on land owned by the University of California, San Diego. In 2006, a group of tribes laid claim to the skeletons, and the university later agreed to transfer custody. To block the transfer, the scientists went to court
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Michelle Meyer: The district court has granted summary judgment for all remaining defendants as to all of plaintiffs’ remaining claims in Looney v. Moore, the lawsuit arising out of the controversial SUPPORT trial. This therefore ends the lawsuit, pending possible appeal by the plaintiffs
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The unorthodox petition — which sought a writ of habeas corpus, an age-old method of challenging unlawful imprisonment — was the latest attempt by the nonprofit Nonhuman Rights Project to establish that apes are “legal persons”
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A US company is the first to face penalties under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), a law that protects the privacy of genetic information. On 22 June, a federal court jury in Georgia awarded US$2.25 million to two men whose employer tested their DNA, seeking to identify who had repeatedly left feces in one of its warehouses
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Repealing the federal health law would add an additional 19 million to the ranks of the uninsured in 2016 and increase the federal deficit over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Friday
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Doctors call it defensive medicine. They order extra tests, perform extra procedures or push for more office visits because they think that without them, they’re at greater risk of being sued. But studies don’t support the notion that this reduces their risk. What might help physicians avoid being sued is getting along better with their patients. Or at least, they could become better communicators
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In a move that may have broad ramifications for the pharmaceutical industry, a small drug maker called Amarin AMRN -6.57% has filed a lawsuit against the FDA to argue that its right to distribute information about unapproved uses of a medicine is protected by the First Amendment
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