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gruez
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UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs...
>There should be a method + requirement to pay royalties back to public funding for basic research,
You mean the patent system? The university of california holds patents on CRISPR, for instance.
llamaimperative
6 months ago
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CRISPR was obviously commercializable, most academic research is quite a bit further from commercialization and some tiny portion ends up being extremely valuable way downstream nonetheless.
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You mean the patent system? The university of california holds patents on CRISPR, for instance.