The SuperMom101 Show Blog: A Corporation Owns My Genes — and Yours (...and it ain't cheap, ethical or moral)

December 28, 2012

A Corporation Owns My Genes — and Yours (...and it ain't cheap, ethical or moral)

A Corporation Owns My Genes — and Yours

This is a terrific article on the upcoming Supreme Court case that will hear whether one company has the right to own our genes and along with it - breast cancer research, all the diagnostic profits and a monopoly on OUR genes.

Best health to everyone in the coming New Year!

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Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.
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