Doctors still invoke the Hippocratic Oath, which classics scholar Robin Lane Fox refers to as “the essential ethic of Western medicine” (although, as he characteristically points out, its actual links ...

It’s Time to Ensure Your Patent Strategy Is in Tune with the Changing Legal Landscape Thanks to improvements in next-generation sequencing techniques and other high-throughput approaches for analyzing ...

Medicine is an important part of our lives, especially in times of pandemic. When human society shares an invasive, and sometimes lethal, virus, we turn to medical researchers and practitioners to ...

Federal Circuit held that DNA is patent-eligible subject matter with certain restrictions, but upcoming decisions could provide clarity and narrow the limitations, explain Fenwick & West attorneys.

Inventions, discoveries reported last week included: In London, a “master-film” bearing letters and figures in many styles of type, which, when operated by a keyboard, typewriter-wise, fractionally ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about contemporary culture and the arts. Lane Fox’s work begins with a study of bodies in Homer and a striking insight: ...

THE INVENTION OF MEDICINE From Homer to Hippocrates By Robin Lane Fox 404 pp. Basic Books. $35. The clinical eye — exacting, dispassionate, free of superstition — came into being a little after 500 ...

Faced with a steady decline in blood donations and an aging population, Japan is actively seeking sustainable alternatives to traditional transfusions. Finding compatible blood, especially in ...

The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in Assoc. for Mol. Pathology v. USPTO (informally referred to as the Myriad decision), provides some clarity to entrepreneurs and scientists working in the ...