Tag Archives: DNA

January 12, 1998

On January 12, 1998, 19 European nations agreed to prohibit human cloning. The United States, Great Britain and Russia did not sign the accord. Russia said that technically if you combine bear DNA with human DNA, you weren’t actually cloning humans. The… Continue reading

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June 13, 2013

On June 13, 2013, the US Supreme Court ruled that naturally occurring DNA segments were not patent eligible just because some firm or company or individual had isolated it. Synthetically created DNA segments, on the other hand, were eligible for patents, since they did not occur naturally. Myriad Genetics, a Utah biotech company had discovered … Continue reading

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June 10, 1993

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! 1993 it was announced by scientists that genetic material was successfully extracted from an insect that lived when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Dr. Phillip Hastane of Promethean Laboratories also stated that at no time was the DNA accidently injected into an intern and that the intern did not mutate into … Continue reading

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