The Court must answer the following question: Can human genes – your genes – be patented? Put another way, should someone essentially be permitted to own the right, say, to test whether you have a set of genes that imply a higher than 50% probability of developing breast cancer?
发自纽约——美国最高法院最近开始审议一起案件——该案件突显出了由知识产权所引发的深层次问题。最高法院必须回答下面这个问题：人类基因——也就是你我的基因——能被别人申请专利吗？换句话说，法律是否应该允许某人持有某种专利，类似检测他人体内是否拥有一组显示其有高于50%的概率罹患乳腺癌的基因。