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Greenpeace in Germany Challenges a Stem Cell Patent
The Scientist 2004, 18(23):46
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The German arm of the environmental lobby group Greenpeace is disputing a patent on the grounds that it allows the commercial exploitation of human stem cells. The group filed a notice of opposition against a patent granted to Oliver Brüstle, a researcher at the University of Bonn who was the first in Germany to receive a license to import human embryonic stem cells for research purposes. In May, the European Patent Office granted the patent, which covers a cell culture method related to a process for deriving neural cells from embryonic stem cells.
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