Patent My Jeans, NOT My Genes
Despite the fact that I myself am the co-Inventor of 6 US patents, 2 of which are patents that describe and protect human gene sequences, I am going on record to say that I think that the ability to patent human genes is wrong and should never have been allowed. …
Remembering Terry Fox on the 33rd Anniversary of the Marathon of Hope
Thirty-three years ago today, one of the most legendary and momentous events in Canadian (global?) history got set in motion. On this day 33 years ago, 21-year old Terrance Stanley Fox dipped his prosthetic leg into the Atlantic Ocean near St. John’s Newfoundland and began an impossible trek known as …
Today is World Health Day – Go Out and Hug a Researcher!
Every April 13, World Health Day is marked to remember the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948. Every year a theme is selected. This years theme is hypertension or high blood pressure. Just the same I wanted to take a second to ask you to ponder how …
