Explainer: cancer gene legal case a win for corporate medicine or common sense?

By Jane Lyon
Updated October 15 2014 - 10:13am, first published September 28 2014 - 12:15am

This month the Federal Court decided that private companies have the right to control human genes in an important test case. A sensible win for private investment in research or a scary corporatisation of our shared genes? Jane Lyons sequences the debate.

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