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The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA
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Synopsis : In this riveting, behind-the-scenes courtroom drama, a brilliant legal team battles corporate greed and government overreach for our fundamental right to control our genes. When attorney Chris Hansen learned that?the U.S. government was issuing patents?for human genes to biotech companies, his?first thought was, How can a corporation own?what makes us who we are? Then he discovered?that women were being charged exorbitant?fees to test for hereditary breast and ovarian?cancers, tests they desperately needed?all because?Myriad Genetics had patented the famous?BRCA genes. So he sued them. Jorge L. Contreras, one of the nation?s foremost authorities on human genetics law, has devoted years to investigating the groundbreaking civil rights case known as AMP v. Myriad. In The Genome Defense Contreras gives us the view from inside as Hansen and his team of ACLU lawyers, along with a committed group of activists, scientists, and physicians, take their one-in-a-million case all the way to the
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Author : Jorge L. Contreras
Pages : 432 pages
Publisher : Algonquin Books
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ISBN-10 : 1616209682
ISBN-13 : 9781616209681