| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Ever since the first human gene was patented in 1982, there is been a near-universal What??!! when people hear that it is legal for someone to own the rights to our DNA. Blame the Constitution, which empowers Congress to give inventors the exclusive right to their discoveries; the patent office, which interprets discoveries" as including genes; and the courts, which have said similar patents
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