Ontario hospital challenges right to patent human genes

A Canadian hospital is launching a court challenge with the ultimate goal of invalidating patents on human genes, saying such protection can adversely affect the health of patients and boost the country's health-care costs. Lawyers for the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, or CHEO, were in the process early Monday of filing the challenge in federal court in Ottawa, arguing that genes and other segments of the human genome should not be subject to patents for commercial or any other purposes.

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