cancer gene. she chose this company, myriad, to do the test because she like every other woman in the united states had no choice. this company retains exclusive rights to all testing and research for this breast cancer gene. that s right a. company holds a patent on your genes and today the u.s. supreme court could decide on whether it should have that right. george washington university professor and constitutional lawyer jonathan turley is here. good morning. reporter: good morning, carol. at the crux of this case, could human genes be patentt? the. reporter: the reading of this case has extreme patent laws. the supreme court says you can patent everything under the sun man makes. genes are made by man t. company said they spent a lot of money isolating this gene sequence to allow people like jolie to get the benefits from it.