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Amgen aims to restock its medicine cabinet
Amgen Inc. is a biotechnology company that develops medicines used in the treatment of cancer, kidney disease, arthritis, bone disease and other serious illnesses. The Thousand Oaks company's top-selling products include arthritis medication Enbrel,...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Pharmaceuticals, Ovarian Cancer, Amgen Inc., Kidney Disease
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T.R.E.L. Zawko Murder: Suspect Lived Next Door, Tried to Cut His Own Neck
Channel 2 NewsCharging documents against 22-year-old Victor Enrique Garcia say he told Anchorage police that he described himself in a “dark place” the morning of Jan. 18, when he allegedly killed 21-year-old T.R.E.L. Zawko. On a rainy Saturday afternoon...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Witnesses, Murder, Justice System, Judges
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Blood on Bat Matches DNA of Murder Suspect and Victim T.R.E.L. Zawko
Channel 2 NewsA 22-year-old man has been arrested for a January 18th murder in midtown, according to the Anchorage Police Department. Police alleged that Victor Enrique Garcia killed 21-year-old T.R.E.L. Zawko on the 1300 block of Crescent Drive. Around 1:30 p.m....Tags: Murder, Chemical Industry
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Investigators believe Boston bombs likely made at Tsarnaev's home
ReutersBy Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Mark Hosenball BOSTON/WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) - Investigators believe Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, likely made the bombs they are suspected of setting off at last month's Boston Marathon in Tamerlan'...Tags: FBI, Justice System, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Religion and Belief, Students
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Chevron to appeal imprisonment of Indonesia contractor
ReutersBy Fergus Jensen JAKARTA, May 8 (Reuters) - Oil firm Chevron on Wednesday criticised the sentencing of one of its Indonesian subcontractors to five years in jail for breaching environmental laws, citing irregularities in the investigation and trial,...Tags: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Justice System, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, Petroleum Industry
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Scientists sequence DNA of a 'living fossil': the coelacanth
They're big, they're furtive, they're weird-looking. You almost certainly wouldn't want to dine on one, since they're endangered and are said to cause digestive distress in people who eat them. But the African coelacanth is extremely useful in at...
Tags: Science and Technology, Stranger Than Fiction, Paleontology, Fishing, Fossils
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Can a company patent your DNA? Supreme Court hears BRCA gene case
Can a private company own rights to your DNA? The nine justices of the Supreme Court will consider that question Monday as lawyers for Myriad Genetics make their best case that the company should be able to keep its patent on two genes known to...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Ovarian Cancer, Justice System, Myriad Genetics Incorporated, Business Enterprises
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Supreme Court critical of patents on human genes
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices said Monday they were highly skeptical of the idea that a company or a scientist can hold a patent on human genes and prevent others from testing or using them. “What about the first person who found a...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Drugs and Medicines, Civil Rights, Justice System, Invention and Innovation
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Supreme Court seems opposed to granting patents on human genes
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court took up a deceptively simple question in a case brought by breast cancer patients and medical researchers: Are human genes patentable? The answer appeared to be "no" during Monday's oral arguments. The justices...
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Justice System, Baseball, Myriad Genetics Incorporated, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Supreme Court to consider validity of patents on genes
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court will hear an appeal Monday from breast cancer patients and medical researchers who say the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office made a mistake when it granted a Utah company an exclusive right to profit from testing genes...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Drugs and Medicines, Invention and Innovation, Justice System, Myriad Genetics Incorporated
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Supreme Court considers gene patents; scientists react
As the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case against Myriad Genetics, scientists who are skeptical of the idea of patenting genes said they were hopeful that the justices would overturn the Utah company's claims. "I was on pins and needles...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Ovarian Cancer, National Institutes of Health, Myriad Genetics Incorporated, U.S. Supreme Court
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Why genetic patents are good for patients [Blowback]
In their April 12 Op-Ed article "Who should own DNA? All of us," Marcy Darnovsky and Karuna Jaggar write about Myriad's patents on BRCA1 and BRCA2, the so-called breast cancer genes (which were under review Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court), as if they...
Tags: Science and Technology, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Breast Cancer, Myriad Genetics Incorporated, U.S. Supreme Court
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