<. Validates INCY, MLNM, and GENXY>
Both MLNM and INCY (Randy Scott) commented..."wont effect our efforts"... later in the article.
Also near the end:
"Those familiar with the consortium plan say a goal would be to level the playing field for gene-hunting biotech firms, large drug companies, and academic scientists..." [yea, that's the ticket, academic scientists too, yea] "The consortium would re-lease it's map into a public database. All the drug companies, biotech firms, and academic researchers would have free and equal access. The consortium would file intellectual-property claims on the public snips so biotech firms couldn't patent them and sell them back to the corporations".
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Thought this was interesting:
"The idea here isn't to restrict the ability of biotech firms or anyone else to patent genes" "The idea is to make sure the underlying map we all need to find genes is available to anyone who wants to use it"
[so, we want to keep an equal position for our snout at this nice new bigger trough, that these guys found, as we had at the old one. But trough's really should be public domain for heavens sake! Is that whats going on?]
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