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Perspective

Feb. 20, 2013

An open-source approach to cancer

The latest victory in the Myriad Genetics case in Australia, allowing Myriad Genetics to patent isolated DNA, has sparked new debate over the development of new drugs to treat cancer. By Kenneth Eade


By Kenneth Eade


The latest victory in the Myriad Genetics case in Australia, allowing Myriad Genetics to patent isolated DNA, has sparked new debate over the development of new drugs to treat cancer. At the forefront of a grass roots movement in this debate is Viratech.org, run by a subsidiary of Viratech Corp., which claims to be the first open-source biotech research and development platform, and brings to the biotech industry what the software industry ...

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