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Location Call # Volume Status
 Sherman Library  KF228.A8436 C66 2021    AVAILABLE  
 LAW General Collection - 2nd Floor  KF228.A8436 C66 2021    AVAILABLE  
Author Contreras, Jorge L., author.
Title The genome defense : inside the epic legal battle to determine who owns your DNA / Jorge L. Contreras.
Edition First edition.
OCLC 1227269234
ISBN 9781616209681 hardcover
1616209682 hardcover
9781643753249 (paperback)
164375324X (paperback)
electronic book
Publisher Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2021]
©2021.
Description xiv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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General marctarget
Any audience marctarget
LC Subject heading/s Association for Molecular Pathology -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Myriad Genetics, Inc. -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Other
Subject heading/s		 Myriad Genetics, Inc. (OCoLC)fst01934862
LC Subject heading/s Patent suits -- United States.
Human gene mapping -- United States -- Patents.
Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis -- United States -- Patents.
Human gene mapping -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Other
Subject heading/s		 LAW / Science & Technology.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Biomedical.
Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis. (OCoLC)fst00962909
Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst00962910
Human gene mapping. (OCoLC)fst00963066
Human gene mapping -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst00963070
Patent suits. (OCoLC)fst01054860
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Other
Genre heading/s		 patents. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300027832
Patents. (OCoLC)fst01423842
Trials, litigation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01423712
Patents.
Court decisions and opinions.
Brevets d'invention. (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001468
Recueils de jurisprudence et d'opinions. (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001431
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Building the case. Who can we sue? -- The world in the Helix -- The gene queen -- Mr. Lincoln's boat -- The ACLU way -- Product of nature -- On the hill -- Speaking of patents -- The power of pink -- We've got you covered -- BART -- Patents and plaintiffs -- Pulling the trigger -- Litigation. The big guns -- SDNY -- Chicken and egg -- We're from the government -- Splitting the baby -- The patent court -- Magic microscope -- Last man standing -- Highest court in the land. Déjà vu all over again -- Air force 1 -- With friends like these -- Oyez, oyez, oyez! -- 9-0 -- Aftermath -- Appendix: The (legal) meaning of Myriad -- Principal characters.
Summary "The gripping true story of a Supreme Court civil rights battle to prevent biotech companies from owning the very thing that makes us who we are--our DNA"-- Provided by publisher.
When attorney Chris Hansen learned that the U.S. government was issuing patents for human genes to biotech companies, he discovered that women were being charged exorbitant fees to test for hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, tests they desperately needed-- because Myriad Genetics had patented the famous BRCA genes. So he sued them. 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 U.S. Supreme Court. The result is a compelling story about how society must balance scientific discovery with corporate profits and the rights of all people. -- adapted from jacket.
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