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``The biotechnology giant Monsanto [now a wholly owned subsidiary of Pharmacia] has announced it will give away the patents to a genetically modified rice grain that could help stop blindness and malnourishment. It says it will provide royalty-free licences to help the development of `golden rice' and other rice varieties with enhanced pro-vitamin A....Monsanto also announced that it had launched a website called Rice-research, opening its rice genome sequence database to researchers around the world. Monsanto described its initiatives as `part of the company's ongoing commitment to global agricultural research, aimed at facilitating the use of its technologies and data for the common good'.''
Full story at BBC News:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_865000/865946.stm
Monsanto's Rice-Research website:
http://www.rice-research.org
There may yet be hope for some corporations.
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