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Re:Supreme Court: Natural Isolated DNA Not Patentable, Synth... by RabbitAngstrom on Thursday June 13, 2013 @12:07PM (#5874787)
A co-worker in my lab pointed out that Myriad's stock is actually rising[1] after the decision.The best guess is that Myriad's competitive advantage is shifting to the enormous amounts of BRCA sequences they have obtained -- this would increase the cancer-vs-normal mutation prediction power considerably.

[1] - http://www.google.com/finance?cid=658315

Re:Supreme Court: Natural Isolated DNA Not Patentable, Synth... by jfb on Thursday June 13, 2013 @12:43PM (#5875003)
Also, they now have legal certainty whereas before the decision there was a chance the whole kit and kaboodle would have been tossed out.
Re:Supreme Court: Natural Isolated DNA Not Patentable, Synth... by michaelhoffman on Thursday June 13, 2013 @04:48PM (#5876462)
Not anymore.