human gene patents, Who owns this body?

Who Owns This Body?
WIL S. HYLTON
Esquire v135, n6 (June, 2001):102.

The U. S. patent code was never meant to cover your genes, your cells, your blood, or the marrow in your bones. But it does. And Craig Venter's map of the human genome was never meant to lead to the kind of great gene rush that is taking place as you read this. But it has. And the worst thing is, it's too late for you to do anything about it. You've already been sold.

http://www.oswego.edu/~foxx/rants/genes.htm