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https://www.the-american-interest.com/2009/09/01/the-battle-to-patent-your-genes/
The American Interest
A legal showdown looms over the corporations that want to own our DNA.
April 12, 1955 was a day of celebration. Across the United States, church bells rang, sirens blew, and people poured into the streets singing and dancing. The rejoicing was a spontaneous response to news that field trials of Jonas Salk’s vaccine against the dread polio virus had been successful. The public had avidly followed the search for a vaccine for years. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers had participated in the trials, and tens of millions contributed dimes, quarters and dollars to the effort. According to a 1954 Gallup poll, more Americans knew about the polio field trials than knew the full name of their President, Dwight David Eisenhower. ....

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