An article by Richard Wolf:

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"The Supreme Court expressed grave doubts Monday about the legality of a company's exclusive patent on the genes that can identify an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

"Using analogies ranging from baseball bats to chocolate chip cookies, a majority of justices said Myriad Genetics' isolation of the breast cancer genes was largely a force of nature, not invention."

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/15/genes-patents-supreme-court-breast-cancer-ovarian/2084335/