Hey, CLB Podcast listeners–we’ve got No. 8 for you. This month, we feature Hank Greely with…
Fellow Jake Sherkow on the Indian Supreme Court Gleevec decision;
Fellow Matt Lamkin on disability law and social realities;
and himself on the ethical issues surrounding the sequencing of the HeLa genome.
You can hear the podcast, here:
Recently, the FDA declared that it was no longer accepting applications for generic formulations of Oxycontin. The reason? Because Purdue Pharma, OxyContin’s manufacturer, had developed–and received approval for–an “abuse-resistant” formulation of the drug. Whether this is an example of regulatory gamesmanship or the fruits of incentivizing public safety is up for debate. With that in mind, the CLB blog is proud to host a short debate between CLB Fellow, Jake Sherkow, and Duquesne School of Law Professor, Jacob Rooksby.
The format is simple–each has ~500 words of opening statement followed by ~250 words of rebuttal. You decide which Jacob is right. (Or if both are. Or, if neither.) As Jacob Rooksby is the away team, he gets to bat first, while Jake Sherkow gets “last licks.” Read the rest of this entry »
Hey, CLB Podcast listeners–we’ve got No. 7 for you. This month, we feature Hank Greely with…
- SLS 1L, Amanda Rubin, on the annoucement of President Obama’s Brain Map Initiative;
- SLS 1L, Roland Nadler, on the electrifying work of transcranial direct current stimulation;
- Fellow Jake Sherkow on the less electrifying, but still very important, Amgen v. Connecticut Retirement Plans case decided by the Supreme Court;
- and himself on mice with human neurons.
You can hear the podcast, here:
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CLB recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Shubha Ghosh from the University of Wisconsin for a mini-podcast to talk about his recent book, Identity, Invention, and the Culture of Personalized Medicine Patenting. You can hear the mini-podcast here:
Today’s oral arguments in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics were wide-ranging–and often-times confusing. Almost all of the Justices seemed struggled with basic principles of laboratory genetics, and several seemed hung up on various points of basic patent law. Nonetheless, Myriad’s composition claims–that is, gene patent–claims seem in jeopardy. Whether that jeopardy will translate into five or more votes, however, remains to be seen. Read the rest of this entry »
CLB recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Andrew Torrance from the University of Kansas for a mini-podcast to talk about law and the biosciences. You can hear it here:
Elvina Chow
On February 10, 2013, Nature Medicine published an article, which discloses that the partially disabled cowpox virus, known as JX-594, has been shown to combat cancer. Scientists have manipulated the vaccinia virus by removing the self-replicating gene and inserting another gene that helps recruit immune cells to cancerous tumors, thereby creating the engineered virus JX-594. Read the rest of this entry »
As a coda to our Law and the Biosciences workshop this year, we have mini-podcasts from our last three speakers: Carl Elliot from the University of Minnesota, Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin, and Nita Farahany of Duke University. You can find them here:
