Biology Goes Open Source 100
cford writes "According to Forbes some of the drug company giants are finally realizing that their genetic research is worth more if they give it away. 'Novartis, the Basel, Switzerland, drug giant, has helped uncover which of the 20,000 genes identified by the Human Genome Project are likely to be associated with diabetes. But rather than hoard this information, as drug firms have traditionally done, it is making it available for free on the World Wide Web. "It will take the entire world to interpret these data," says Novartis research head Mark Fishman. "We figure we will benefit more by having a lot of companies look at these data than by holding it secret."'"
Re:Biological Stallman (Score:1, Funny)
I mean, c'mon!
Re:Speaking of which.. (Score:5, Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman [wikipedia.org]
Clearly you went straight to the naked pictures and skipped the second sentence of the article you link that points out that the plural of "woman" is "women" and not "Womans". Not that the post would have been funny if you could spell.
Re:Speaking of which.. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:patenting any genes is absurd (Score:3, Funny)
If somebody finds that gene and patents it we're all in trouble.