11/2/2000

Genotypes

Call to Dialogue or Call to 911?
Declaration of Athens is DOA at Georgia’s International Congress of
Ethnobiology. Ten Points on Piracy are offered toward a more
constructive discourse.

RAFI Geno-Type
Thursday, November 2nd 2000
www.rafi.org

Call to Dialogue or Call to 911?

Declaration of Athens is DOA at Georgia’s International Congress of
Ethnobiology. Ten Points on Piracy are offered toward a more
constructive discourse.

The Seventh International Congress of Ethnobiology had a rough ride in
Athens, Georgia Oct. 23-27. Overshadowing the proceedings was

Nature 408, 6 (02 November 2000), News

Kenyans protest at being left off AIDS patent

WACHIRA KIGOTHO

[NAIROBI] The terms of a collaboration on a potential HIV vaccine,
between a British research team and the University of Nairobi, are to
be revised after the Kenyan scientists complained that their names had
been excluded from a patent application on the vaccine.

The original patent on the subtype A DNA candidate vaccine was filed
last year by the UK Medical Research Council in the names of Andrew
McMichael and Tomas Hanke, of Oxford University’s Institute of
Molecular Medicine.

Source: GREENPEACE news archive
http://www.greenpeace.org/~geneng/

TWO BIOTECH COMPANIES WITHDRAW EMBRYO PATENTS

10 October 2000, Hamburg: Stem Cell Sciences (SCS) and Bio Transplant,
who had applied for a patent on human/animal embryos to the European
Patent Office (EPO), have declared that they will no longer include
human embryos in their patents anywhere in the world.

These are the first biotech companies to admit having gone too far in
claiming patents on human embryos. However, they made no concession on
abandoning patents on life. Greenpeace welcomed the voluntary
commitment,