In 1985, Oxford University diabetes researcher David Matthews published a study in the journal Diabetologia about a computerised mathematical model that coul...

The UK supreme court has ruled that Actavis (now part of Accord Healthcare in the UK and Ireland), which produced alternative forms of chemotherapy drug Alim...

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Last year, the US Supreme Court ruled that raw human DNA is not patentable, but the discovery of the CRISPR-Cas system, a new genome editing technique, has o...