The Online Laboratory of Kevin Zelnio » Elizabeth Pennisi http://www.zelnio.org Deep Sea Biology | Systematics & Taxonomy | Science Writing | Music Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:23:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Patenting Systematics http://www.zelnio.org/2009/08/08/patenting-systematics/ http://www.zelnio.org/2009/08/08/patenting-systematics/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:39:23 +0000 Kevin Zelnio http://www.zelnio.org/?p=96 An interesting news piece came out today in the most recent issue of Science. Elizabeth Pennisi reports that systematists are up in arms over pending patents on methods that have been in place for dozens of years. Such as a novel

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