When the Academia Sinica first hooked up with BASF, 100 genes were originally selected for research, but the number was slashed to 30 in the end because teams from other countries had already filed patent claims on the rest.
余淑美透露，中研院與巴司夫合作之初，曾選擇了 100 個基因要進行研究，最後只剩下 30 個，是因為其餘的都已被其他國家的團隊捷足先登、申請專利了。