Boosting bioprospects
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Drug companies have stopped funding bioprospectsing enterprises, a short-sighted business strategy, as a result of which few economic rewards are returning to developing nations. A new framework for access and benefit sharing is developed and a key component of this framework is a certificate of origin that links compounds discovered in the jungle to drugs that may be developed at pharmaceutical companies.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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Addicted to secrecy
Article Abstract:
Scientific bodies want most of the public-health data to be released into the public domain. The industry's reputation may benefit in the long run from arrangements that get information about drug safety into the public domain and might ensure that companies are fully complying global secrecy registers.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
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