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World Service,14 Jun 2013,55 mins

US Courts Block the Right to Patent Human Genes

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US courts block the right of companies to patent the human gene. Also on the programme, the octagenarian media mogul Rupert Murdoch files for divorce from his wife Wendi - and we hear about robo roach, the cockroach you can control. Finally we discuss a world without 'Quantitative Easing' with our lives guests, author and journalist Michael Casey in New York, and Wall Street Journal economics reporter Alex Frangos in Hong Kong.

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