Patents on biomedical research tools - technological inputs to experimentation - may inhibit scientific inquiry and the … argues that institutions that fund and support biomedical research are resorting to an underappreciated model of private … ordering to resolve research holdup. Increasingly, federal and state agencies, universities, non-profits, and disease advocacy …

In biomedical research and translational medicine, the ancient war between exclusivity (private control over … information) and access to information is proposing again on a new battlefield: research biobanks. The latter are becoming … distribute in a secure and professional way a critical mass of human biological samples for research purposes. Tissues and …