Patenting race.

Authors :: Kahn, Jonathan
Source :: Nature Biotechnology. Nov2006, Vol. 24 Issue 11, p1349-1351. 3p. 1 Color Photograph, 1 Chart.
Publication Year :: 2006
Abstract: The article discusses the strategic use of race as a genetic category to obtain patent protection and drug approval. Such use of race to obtain extended patent protection for biotechnological inventions indicate a serious distortion of this relationship as commercial imperatives drive simplistic and scientifically weak conceptions of the complex relationship between social categories of race and genetics.