Thursday, June 13, 2013

Voice of America: Supreme Court Gene Ruling Benefits Biotech, Breast Cancer Research

Voice of America
Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries
Supreme Court Gene Ruling Benefits Biotech, Breast Cancer Research
Jun 13th 2013, 23:46

Megan McGrath - Everyone has BRCA genes in their cells. If you are a woman and one of your BRCA gene copies has a mutation, your risk of developing breast cancer is very high - up to 87 percent in some cases. A biotechnology company called Myriad Genetics Inc. was the first to discover the healthy, normal code of BRCA. Because a mutation is an error in that code, the normal sequence can be used to test for the breast cancer-causing BRCA mutation. Myriad developed the test, and won patent ...

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