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With justification, much has been made of the great diversity encompassed by the term ‘biotechnology.’ For example, it has been said that biotechnology ‘concerns the creation of new varieties of plants, new animal breeds and new microorganisms, either by traditional selection methods or by new methods [of]…genetic engineering, that is, by methods of modifying the genes of …animals, plants and microorganisms, by introducing an artificially modified genetic material,’ to provide new products — plants, animals and microorganisms, as well as parts and by-products thereof — and new processes for using or producing such products.1
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See, e.g., Fitch & Atchley, ‘Evolution in Inbred Strains of Mice Appears Rapid,’ Science 228: 1169 (1985).
Marx, ‘Instability in Plants and the Ghost of Lamarck,’ Science 224: 1715 (1984).
Eustachio & Ruddle, ‘Somatic Cell Genetics and Gene Familes,’ Science 220: 919 (1983).
See generally Milstein, ‘From Antibody Structure to Immunological Diversification of Immune Response,’ Science 231: 1261 (1986).
See, e.g., Naunba & Stubbs, ‘Structure of Tobacco Mosaic Virus at the 3.6 Angstrom Resolution: Implications for Assembly,’ Science 231: 1401 (1986)
Hogle et al, ‘Three-Dimensional Structure of Poliovirus at 2.9 Angstrom Resolution,’ Science 229: 1358 (1985).
Khorana, ‘Total Synthesis of a Gene,’ Science 203: 614 (1979); ‘A Step Toward Artificial Chromosomes,’ Science News, October 7, 1983, at 41.
Slutsky et al, ‘High-frequency Switching of Colony Morphology in Candida albicans,’ Science 230: 666–69 (1985).
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Bent, S.A., Schwaab, R.L., Conlin, D.G., Jeffery, D.D. (1987). Invention in Biotechnology — a Conceptual Approach. In: Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnology Worldwide. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08009-0_2
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