Category: Science
Gene Patents Are Unlawful but Why
Last week the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. government’s practice of granting patents on human genes – specifically, the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which are associated with breast and ovarian cancer. In the last 20 or so years the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has issued patents [...]
Blue M&M food dye turns you blue – but reduces paralysis from spinal injuries
One of the experimental rats, before and after injection with the blue food dye
Quantum Measurements: Common Sense Is Not Enough, Physicists Show
The scientists report on their findings in the current issue of Nature. Quantum mechanics describes the physical state of light and matter and formulates concepts that totally contradict the classical conception we have of nature. Thus, physicists have tried to explain non-causal phenomena in quantum mechanics by classical models of hidden variables, thereby excluding randomness, [...]
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