Kathleen Maxian has advanced-stage ovarian cancer that could have been prevented. When Myriad Genetics patented the two genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer they put Kathleen and thousands like her at risk.
A U.S. Court of Appeals has granted companies the right to patent genes, but the Supreme Court is now reviewing a petition to hear the case submitted by the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation on behalf of plaintiffs.
Help us stop gene patenting. Learn more: https://www.aclu.org/take-back-your-genes