Letter: Cost of gene patenting will hit patients

Tuesday 15 July 1997 23:02 BST

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Sir: Adam Hedgecoe's assertion (letter, 15 July) that gene patents cover "just chemicals" is like saying that Shakespeare is "just letters". Rather it is the information (the "sequence") carried within these genes that is actually being patented. We all carry this information, and it is part of what we are as living organisms.

PHILLIP LORD

Edinburgh

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