Dan Burk

University of California, Irvine

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Chancellor's Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine and an expert on patent law

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Mapping the human genome began "the biological gold rush of the 21st Century," with companies now owning patents on 4000 human genes.

Genetic Breakthroughs: Patents and Profits

Mapping the human genome began "the biological gold rush of the 21st Century," with companies now owning patents on 4000 human genes.

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