The phantom menace of gene patents

Sibylle Gaisser, Michael M. Hopkins, Kathleen Liddell, Eleni Zika and Dolores Ibarreta
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Sibylle Gaisser: Sibylle Gaisser is at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, 48 Breslauer Street, 76139 Karlsruhe, Germany
Michael M. Hopkins: Michael M. Hopkins is at SPRU: Science and Technology Policy Research, at the University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QE, UK m.m.hopkins@sussex.ac.uk
Kathleen Liddell: Kathleen Liddell is at the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK
Eleni Zika: Eleni Zika and Dolores Ibarreta are at the European Commission Joint Research Center, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Edificio Expo, Inca Garcilaso, E-41092 Seville, Spain.
Dolores Ibarreta: Eleni Zika and Dolores Ibarreta are at the European Commission Joint Research Center, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Edificio Expo, Inca Garcilaso, E-41092 Seville, Spain.

Nature, 2009, vol. 458, issue 7237, 407-408

Abstract: In this, the second of two Commentaries, Sibylle Gaisser, Michael M. Hopkins and colleagues discuss a survey demonstrating that European health-care systems are ill prepared for the commercial reality of gene patents.

Date: 2009
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