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Cdna is complementary dna, and the science that jeff explained they're not saying when they are looking for the gene and looking for a specific gene but then in order to make it useful to them to study it they have to make a copy of it, a template if you will. that's the cdna. this he have to do that. they have to actually use the techniques to create that copy and then from there they can make the testing for the jean mutatiom gene mutations. it was the gene itself they were trying to patent. anybody who has a mutation of that breast cancer gene, that's what they were trying to patent and the...

Clarence thomas today. a naturally occurring dna segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible. a company had discovered the precise location and sequence of two genes which if they mutate dramatically increase the chance a woman may develop breast or ovarian cancer. plaintiffs argued their hold on that information was devastating to women in need of genetic testing or other medical researchers hoping to develop additional test and treatments. the court did find myriad can retain patents on synthetically created dna dubbed cdna. the lab technician unquestionably creates something new ...