HSS 3332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Genetic Testing, Biological Patent, Base Pair
16 Oct 2016
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Because we want to be healthy we become the consumers of health products brain strong was taken to court because they do not have clinical proof that is improves brain health. Eisenhower in war because there was such a product involvement to provide resources for war. He argued it might be a conflict of interest there are industries creating these products for war. How this is transferred into the health industry. There is a support for bio capitalism, there is investment for genetic testing screening for making product. Snp- single nucleotide differs from a member of a species most common variations , single base pair substitution create snps and account for many of the genetic differences among individuals. It can help or hinder people to process certain drugs. Biobanking- keeping genetic information from a sample and using it to have a huge database. A patent allows property right on the item, in this case diamond vs chakrabarty supreme.
