An article by Richard Wolf:

EXCERPT

"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."

SOURCE

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