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---They just let nature do it's thing in a lab.---

These are in fact, transgenic mice engineered in a lab (by Phil
Leder at Harvard) to carry particular genes. Their patentability is
still in question:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/features/harvard_mouse.html
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If you can't get 'em one way  AbsolutelyNot | 05/04/04
Apr 1?  Martin Marvinski | 05/04/04
see ... ya gotta count your fingers after shaking Gates' hands  oldskool | 05/04/04
Mike, where are you?  DpuTiger | 05/04/04
Total BS  j.m.galvin | 05/04/04
does that mean m$ also has patent on the worm? -nt  stephen732@... | 05/04/04
Maybe its something pharmaceutical in nature  FilledOut | 05/04/04
Patenting something found in nature  tic swayback | 05/04/04
Yup - they can  ac2_z | 05/04/04
Obviousness  tic swayback | 05/04/04
So?  PA-ITGuy | 05/04/04
You would be sued  voska | 05/05/04
Some differences there  tic swayback | 05/05/04
Patenting something found in nature  seosamh_z | 05/04/04
It's not the genome is it?  voska | 05/04/04
Genome Project  tic swayback | 05/04/04
They patented mice  voska | 05/04/04
Patented Mice  tic swayback | 05/04/04
They weren't engineered  voska | 05/05/04
The Oncomouse  tic swayback | 05/05/04
yes it's pretty bad....  Monkey_MCSE | 05/04/04
sad  eLurker | 05/04/04
Oh boy another target for Worms  Squawkbox | 05/04/04
Too late for MS/Apple jokes?  toadlife | 05/04/04
Yours is the superior funny bone  Squawkbox | 05/04/04
LOL!  CobraA1 | 05/06/04
This is a future legal manipulation tactic  mlindl | 05/05/04
Ok, so now NATURE is patentable ?  BitTwiddler | 05/05/04
why not  eLurker | 05/05/04
My patent is even more significant.  Anton Philidor | 05/06/04
the last sentence:  ryusen | 05/05/04
Apple  broom | 06/23/04

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