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Creating and Patenting New Life Forms
In Helga Kuhse & Peter Singer (eds.), A Companion to Bioethics. Malden, Mass., USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 235–244 (1998)
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creating and patenting new life forms micro‐organisms and plants ‐ substantial benefits to humans bacteria producing lifesaving medicine and new strains of plants transgenic animal ‐ genetically modified animal creating and patenting new life forms possibility of changing human nature as a matter of principle patents on life forms ‐ incompatible with having “reverence for life” patents interfering with human autonomy or freedom ‐ quite dubious
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