Slashdot has a nice reference to this article on BBC about how India is developing a database of ancient medicines to prevent stupid patents like the one on the healing powers of turmeric.
Lets hope this helps stop bio-piracy. Make sure to read the related articles mentioned on the BBC page.
-A
P.S. Ran 7.8 miles today morning. Here is the route
Thursday, December 08, 2005
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I could guess that you din't put that status message for your roommate who whould have cooked...just guessed that it would have something to do with patents....write more on patents...~ malshe
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