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Biotech / Medical : Biotechnology: The Patenting of DNA -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike McFarland who wrote (26)	7/15/1999 9:19:00 AM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37

<please help!> I'm not really the one to be chipping in here, as technically I am of little help. But, this statement- <biotech companies are not going to be patenting SNPs or snip maps, it will be public domain.> I think this statement by INCY is quite revealing: "We expect LifeSeq Gold to become to the scientific community what 'Bloomberg®' information represents to the financial community -- a never-ending source of new and updated information geared to the end user.'' The idea is that the flood of information is so complex, and continuous that keeping up with it will mandate continuous investment. I think to assume that there will be a "Rand McNally" road map updated every 5 years when the Feds put a new super-highway in between say GreenBay and Milwaukee is what you're talking about.... what INCY is talking about is keeping up with that damaged yellow light at the corner of 1st and Main... in Moosejaw, Manitoba... here's some INCY press releases: biz.yahoo.com biz.yahoo.com biz.yahoo.com It remains to be seen what actually can be patented... and INCY seems to be saying they have other value. As a wise man keeps saying on these threads... it's going to be exciting. DAK

To: Mike McFarland who wrote (26)	7/15/1999 5:05:00 PM
From: Biomaven	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37

Mike, In fact, if I was born with a few genetic flaws that make me predisposed to a disease, how come the asthma did not crop up until I was 17? How strange that a person would develop such a condition at the age when they are the most healthy--that cant be about genes. I think the answer to your question lies in the word "predisposition." The key assumption here is that because of your predisposition you are susceptible to some environmental insult that can push you over the edge to a disease state. The insult could presumably be a virus or something much more subtle, like continual stress worrying about biotech nanocaps. <g> Identical twin studies are revealing here. Occasionally, both twins suddenly develop the same allergy at a similar time late in life. This is probably "predestined," although of course it could be they both got exposed to the same strain of some bug at the same time. More commonly, if one develops something late in life, it is more probable that the other will get it as well, but not definite. (I'm talking common chronic diseases here, not genetic diseases like Huntington's.) The trouble of course with trying to figure out what SNP's are associated with what diseases is that there is so much noise. One outfit is looking at Iceland, in the hopes that the more genetically homogeneous population there will remove a few degrees of freedom from the equation. Last I heard, Icelanders aren't as genetically homogeneous as they were hoping, even though they apparently all look the same and have the same names. <g> Peter