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An Awful Corporation Does Something So Cartoonishly Creepy That We Have To Make A Dr. Evil Reference

So this fun biotech corporation, Myriad Genetics, had the bright idea of patenting your ACTUAL genes. We all have them. They didn’t invent them. Evolution did.  Here’s why letting them do that is a bad idea.

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Adam Mordecai


You can read more about how to stop gene patenting here. 

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