Profits Pending

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Summary: Read this book!!!
Review: Frighteningly informative...This book really lets us know how powerful our patent system has become. This is a must-read for anyone who is interested in gene patenting and what it could mean for our future. I was shocked at what the author had to tell and I urge those who are concerned with the power of big companies and big money to pick it up and check it out. This is a fantastic book!

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Summary: About financial greed and the abuse of a system
Review: Profits Pending: How Life Patents Represent The Biggest Swindle Of The 21st Century by ethicist Matthew Albright is a critical examination of the practice applying the U.S. patent system to human genes. Exploring current and potential devastating repercussions of such patents, ranging from slowing the research upon deadly diseases; to creating monopolies on world food sources; to eroding critical elements of the scientific method such as free exchange of ideas between researchers, and so much more, Profits Pending is a gripping and insightful analysis of just how financial greed and the abuse of a system can ultimately work to the considerably and enduring detrimental to humanity as a whole. Profits Pending should be required reading for policy makers and pundits involved in the current national debate over genetic research in general -- and the fruits of the genome project in particular.