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The LML is delighted to announce that Nature Biotechnology has accepted for publication a second article from an LML Research Group concerning the impacts of the US Supreme Court's decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v Myriad Genetics on patent practice. The article, co-authored by Prof Mateo Aboy, Dr Jonathon...

Over the last week, LML Member Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn has been quoted in a variety of media sources and conducted a radio interview on the case of Charlie Gard. Gard is an eleven month old infant born with a genetic disorder which leaves him unable to breathe unaided and with severe brain damage. The London hospital...

On June 13th, Dr Liddicoat presented at the conference Intellectual Property, Ethics and the Market in the Era of Personalised Medicine , held at St Anne’s College, Oxford. His talk was titled ‘The Phantom Menace of Gene Patents Arises?’, and the abstract can be found below. Dr Liddicoat and colleagues are now in the midst...

Kathy Liddell, Director of the LML, was invited to participate in the fourteenth Policy Leaders Fellowship Roundtable organised by the Centre for Science and Policy which will take place at Trinity College Cambridge on 12 May 2017, chaired by Lord Wilson of Dinton, former UK Cabinet Secretary. The subject for discussion on...