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EU Top Court Clears Path for Stem Cell Patenting / Approves First Medicine

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 3:05 pm
by MachineGhost
Europe's top court has opened the door to certain stem cell patents in the European Union by ruling that an organism incapable of developing into a human being is not a human embryo and may be patented.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/ ... RT20141218

European regulators have recommended approval of the first medicine containing stem cells to treat a rare condition caused by burns to the eye.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/12/1 ... CH20141219