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Science 17 November 1995:
Vol. 270. no. 5239, p. 1112
DOI: 10.1126/science.270.5239.1112
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News & Comment

Gary Taubes

Via the Internet, a small Canadian group has charged medical researchers in Papua New Guinea and at the National Institutes of Health with patenting individuals from the Hagahai tribe. Although researchers actually patented a virus-infected cell line--and arranged to share royalties with the Hagahai--newspaper headlines have painted the scientists as thieves and scientific "vampires."




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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)