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Originally Posted by Nikon
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'Natural' genes cannot be patented but synthetics can. That opens a door for industry to take a gene, duplicate it, modify it slightly, and patent it. I wonder, if you use a patented synthetic gene to make your kid taller, would you have to pay the patent owner when they decide to procreate and pass on that gene, or possibly tell you that you can't procreate because you haven't bought a license to 'distribute' the gene? Oh, the possibilities for making money...
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don't think that would constitute as synthetic. they're going to have to develop in a lab the gene itself by forming it totally in a lab. if they're modifying someone's gene/s then they can't patent it because it was natural at the start and thus so from thenceforth.
the science is pretty cool, but it seems like it's motivated by that desire for the overman. why else would we isolate genes to "fix" certain things in people or enable them to modify their possible children with a set potentiality?