The next time Stephen Quake is prescribed a drug, he says he won't worry about having a
Question:
The next time Stephen Quake is prescribed a drug, he says he won't worry about having a bad reaction. The Stanford University professor will simply consult his genome to see if there are any warning signs in his DNA.
More than two dozen of Quake's scientist colleagues combed through his genetic code to assess his chances of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and how he might react to common medicines. The results were published Friday in the medical journal, Lancet. Dr. Andretti and Gardner decided to file a patent application to patent their methods of diagnosis and the mutations they found. The Copyright and Patent organization denied the patent. They are contemplating a lawsuit to gain the patent. You site one case from your list of cases in the course and say:
The case is____Naturally occurring genes____andmethods to diagnose illnesses____