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Patenting life

  • 30/12/2000

Patenting life  gone are the days when scientists used to experiment on animals. Now human beings are the guinea pigs. Led by the Canada-based Rural Advancement Foundation International, a controversial Human Genome Diversity Project ( hgdp ) is now being undertaken by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology ( ccmb ), Hyderabad. They will be decoding the genome of four primitive tribal communities

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