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Open Access: WSJ: Supreme Court Says Human Genes Aren't Patentable Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Thursday, June 13, 2013

Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience: Myriad Genetics CEO Claims He Owns Your DNA Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2013

New Scientist: Victory for gene patent firm in Australian court Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Saturday, February 16, 2013

Journals: Lisa Federer (Science Blog): A Threat to Open Access: the Research Works Act Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2012

ACLU.org: Groups urge court to uphold ruling that patents on genes are illegal Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Wednesday, April 6, 2011

New York Times: U.S. Says Genes Should Not Be Eligible for Patents Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Saturday, October 30, 2010

WSJ: Glaxo Tries a Linux Approach Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Thursday, May 27, 2010

Business Week: NY judge rules gene patents invalid Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Sydney Morning Herald: Sick babies denied treatment in DNA row Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Genomics and Proteomics: Users, creators wonder how open are open-source tools Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 (1 comment)

Education: BiTmaP: Midwest Bioinformatics Training Program Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Science Mag: Keeping genetic codes free Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Friday, September 10, 2004

The Economist: An open-source shot in the arm? Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Friday, June 11, 2004

Monsanto wins case over patented canola Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Friday, May 21, 2004

Nucleic Acids Research journal initiates 'Open Access Experiment' Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Friday, December 19, 2003

ABC Science: Push to free up biotech tools for all Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Monday, December 1, 2003

Announcement: Public Library of Science launches PLoS Biology Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Monday, October 13, 2003

Nature: Openness makes software better sooner Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Saturday, July 19, 2003

Salon.com: The free research movement Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Wednesday, July 2, 2003

Nature: Gene patents and the public good Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2003

Patenting the Harvard Scientist Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Thursday, June 13, 2002

BioPerl 1.0 Release Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Monday, March 18, 2002 (2 comments)

Tim O' Reilly Discusses Bioinformatics and Open Source Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2002

GenomeWeb: 20 Hackers + 1 Whiteboard + 1 Windowless Room = Open Bio Database Access Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Tuesday, February 5, 2002 (2 comments)

Salt Lake Tribune: Patenting Life Is Wrong, Some Say Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Monday, February 4, 2002

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