MICHAEL K. REES, M.D.
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Washington—Monday's Supreme Court decision granting federal patent protection to new forms of life clears the way for a wide variety of new man-made organisms to do everything from growing wheat in arid lands to mining metals in inaccessible parts of the earth.
There are as many as eight patent applications pending to use new organisms to create different types of interferon, a protein created in small amounts by the human body to fight viral infections.
—The Boston Globe, June 18, 1980
At the awards ceremony, Horace Silvergreen was once again the recipient of the pin for best attendance of the
REES MK. The Case of the Man Who Felt Too Well. Ann Intern Med. ;94:133. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-94-1-133
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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1981;94(1):133.
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-94-1-133
Humanities.