biofutures: owning body parts & information

Deborah Koons’ 2004 feature documentary The Future of Food, a film about the dangers of genetic engineering & the patenting of plants and seeds in the service of industrialized food production, is now available for viewing in its entirety at Hulu.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food

Biotech patents strike a bump in the road with a federal appeals court’s decision that the sequence of a gene from the known protein NAIL is unpatentable because it is “obvious” and required no original insight to develop.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/04/federal-court-y.html