> saya bisa melihat munculnya hasil rekayasa genetika > (franken food anybody?): > - jeruk obat sakit perut dari garut (gak perlu diatab/diapet) > - apel obat pusing dari malang (gak perlu decolgen) > - beras obat batuk (sekalian makan dan batuk hilang ;-) > - ... > bisnis nih! sebelum keduluan oleh thailand. > venture capital: yayasan bill & melinda gates ;-) > > tentu saja, saya hanya bisa ngomong karena ini bukan > bidang yang saya kuasai. hik hik hik. :((
Hati hati penemuan "genetika jeruk obat"nya nanti dipatenkan orang asing pak ! baru dibahas lagi2 di Mercury News kalau sebagian negara maju mempatenkan obat2 tradisional --> http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/13492534.htm ...........-cut begin........... NEW DELHI - For thousands of years Indian villagers have used an extract from seeds of the neem tree as an insecticide. So when a U.S. company patented a process for producing the substance in 1994, India reacted with outrage. After spending millions of dollars in legal fees to successfully overturn the patent, India's government now is creating a 30-million-page database of traditional knowledge to fend off entrepreneurs trying to patent the country's ancient lore. India is not alone in worrying about ``bioprospectors'' profiting from the genetic resources of its plant life with no benefit to its people. It joined with China, Brazil and nine other nations a few years ago to begin pushing for international protections. ............ But that is a tiny fraction of the problem. A 2003 study by Gupta's institute estimated about 7,000 patents worldwide are based on Indian indigenous knowledge, far too many for India to challenge in expensive legal fights. ............. ----cut----- Carlos
