BRCA Genes
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US law forbids patenting pure genetic material without human manipulation
“So ultimately in the U S it was held that these genes could not be patented. That pure genetic material was not itself Patentable. Only if it was manipulated by humans, for example, for use in making special proteins, could it actually be patentable?”