December 7, 2007
New Stem-Cell Technique May Devalue Patents
Patenting officials at the University of Wisconsin at Madison are excited about announcements that new techniques had been found to generate versatile stem cells without destroying human embryos, even though they acknowledge the discovery could eventually undermine the value of the stem-cell patents and licenses that Wisconsin holds.
"Hey, that's what science is about," said Carl E. Gulbrandsen, managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
The foundation, known
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