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The case is growing stronger for re-opening debate on the European Patent Convention in the light of tensions generated by the growing interaction between the patent system and the academic research community.
The molecular biology laboratory nearest to the Equator has done excellently in an unlikely setting and in a short time, but the Internet has not yet banished isolation.
