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Around the united states. this company myriad developed a technique to isolate this gene that you just referred to and that by the way was the gene that angelina jolie had tested and told her that she had a very, very high risk for the development of breast cancer. now, if an average woman wanted to get the same test she got, it might cost as much as $3,000 to get the test because myriad, the company that developed it, said that they had the exclusive right to sell it. the supreme court looks at this and says, you know, you cannot patent a naturally occurring human gene, and what the company had done was they had sort of pulled out this gene from someone s dna and said that s the gene that suggests breast cancer and they got a patent on the process. instead, the supreme court said you can t patent the gene itself. we will let you patent, however, a unique testing process that maybe only you have. sure. and they also said if you ....

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