Patents and profit motives from "summary" of The Genome War by James Shreeve
The contentious issue of patents and profit motives has been a central theme in the ongoing battle between Craig Venter and Francis Collins. Venter, a maverick scientist with a penchant for entrepreneurship, saw the Human Genome Project as an opportunity to stake his claim in the burgeoning field of genomics. Collins, on the other hand, viewed the project as a public good that should be freely available to all.
Venter's decision to pursue private funding for his sequencing efforts raised eyebrows within the scientific community. Critics accused him of putting profit before scientific progress, arguing that the data generated by the Human Genome Project should be shared freely and openly. Venter, however, saw things differently. He believed that the promise of lucrative patents was necessary to incentivize private investment in genomics research.
The race to sequence the human genome became a high-stakes competition between two contrasting visions of ...
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