From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;BRCA1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;BRCA1</a><p>&quot;The first evidence for the existence of such a gene was provided by Mary-Claire King&#x27;s laboratory at UC Berkeley in 1990. Four years later, after an international race to find it, the gene was cloned in 1994 by scientists at University of Utah, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and Myriad Genetics.&quot;<p>Myriad Genetics are the sole licensee of the patent. They weren&#x27;t solely responsible for it&#x27;s discovery, or successful cloning.<p>From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Myriad_Genetics#BRCA1_co-discoverers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Myriad_Genetics#BRCA1_co-disco...</a>:<p>&gt;BRCA1 co-discoverers
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
University of Utah Research Foundation
Université Laval&#x2F;Endo Research – Quebec
The Hospital for Sick Children – University of Toronto
University of Tokyo
Myriad Genetics, Inc.<p>&gt;BRCA2 co-discoverers
University of Utah Research Foundation
The Hospital for Sick Children – University of Toronto
University of Pennsylvania
Myriad Genetics, Inc.<p>The research was done by many organisations, not just &quot;companies&quot;, and was done with no guarantee of profit. There are some researchers who <i>are</i> actually altruistic, and believe in medical progress to save lives.