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The phantom menace of gene patents

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In this, the second of two Commentaries, Sibylle Gaisser, Michael M. Hopkins and colleagues discuss a survey demonstrating that European health-care systems are ill prepared for the commercial reality of gene patents.

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  1. Sibylle Gaisser is at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, 48 Breslauer Street, 76139 Karlsruhe, Germany ,

    Sibylle Gaisser

  2. Michael M. Hopkins is at SPRU: Science and Technology Policy Research, at the University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QE, UK m.m.hopkins@sussex.ac.uk ,

    Michael M. Hopkins

  3. Kathleen Liddell is at the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK ,

    Kathleen Liddell

  4. Eleni Zika and Dolores Ibarreta are at the European Commission Joint Research Center, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Edificio Expo, Inca Garcilaso, E-41092 Seville, Spain.,

    Eleni Zika & Dolores Ibarreta

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This article represents the authors' opinions and not those of the European Commission. See Editorial, page 386 , and online at http://tinyurl.com/dlnksh .

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Gaisser, S., Hopkins, M., Liddell, K. et al. The phantom menace of gene patents. Nature 458, 407–408 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/458407a

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